Isolation, purification, and characterization of pregnancy-specific protein B from elk and moose placenta

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1056-1061

  Huang, Fan ^a   Cockrell, Diane C ^a   Stephenson, Thomas R ^b   Noyes, James H ^c   Sasser, R Garth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNODIFFUSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PH; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CATTLE; DEER; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TEMPERATURE;

ALCES ALCES; ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; OVIS;

EID: 0032834519     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.4.1056     Document Type: Article

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