Immunohistochemical demonstration of the intracellular localization of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide-like immunoreactivity in the rat testis using the stamp preparation

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 78, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 83-88

  Yanaihara, Hitoshi ^a,c   Vigh, Sándor ^a,b   Kozicz, Tamás ^a   Somogyvári Vigh, Aniko ^a   Arimura, Akira ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; PACAP; Rat; Stamp preparation; Testis

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE 27;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; TESTIS;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; TESTIS;

EID: 0032583177     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(98)00125-6     Document Type: Article

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