Seminal vesicle production and secretion of growth hormone into seminal fluid

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1087-1090

  Dyck, Michael K ^a   Gagné, Dominic ^a   Ouellet, Marietta ^a   Sénéchal, Jean François ^a   Bélanger, Edith ^a   Lacroix, Dan ^a   Sirard, Marc André ^a   Pothier, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bioreactor; Genetic engineering; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEMINAL VESICLE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0032692862     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/15067     Document Type: Article

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