Study on the formation of specialized inter-Sertoli cell junctions in vitro

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 258-272

  Chung, Sanny S W ^a,b   Lee, Will M ^b   Cheng, C Yan ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONNEXINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032876725     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4652(199911)181:2<258::AID-JCP8>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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