Expression of messenger ribonucleic acid splice variants for vascular endothelial growth factor in the penis of adult rats and humans

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 398-404

  Burchardt, Martin ^a   Burchardt, Tatjana ^a   Chen, Min Wei ^a   Shabsigh, Ahmad ^a   De La Taille, Alexandre ^a   Buttyan, Ralph ^a   Shabsigh, Ridwan ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VARIATION (GENETICS); VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032919721     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.398     Document Type: Article

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