Alternative splicing events in the coding region of the cytochrome P450 aromatase gene in male rat germ cells

Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 305-312

  Levallet, J ^a   Mittre, H ^b   Delarue, B ^b   Carreau, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CHU Clemenceau   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; GERM CELL; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; INTRONS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031837462     PISSN: 09525041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/jme.0.0200305     Document Type: Article

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