Alternative splicing of follicle-stimulating hormone receptor pre-mRNA: Cloning and characterization of two alternatively spliced mRNA transcripts

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 127-136

  Kraaij, R ^a   Verhoef Post, M ^a   Grootegoed, J A ^a   Themmen, A P N ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; EXONS; FEMALE; ISOMERISM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OVARY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, FSH; TESTIS;

EID: 0031877405     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1580127     Document Type: Article

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