Expression of mixed lineage kinase 2 in germ cells of the testis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-140

  Phelan, David R ^a   Loveland, Kate Lakoski ^b   Devereux, Lisa ^a   Dorow, Donna S ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

JNK; MAPK; SAPK; SEK1 JNKK; Spermatocytes

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GROWTH REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MAP KINASE KINASE 4; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032934317     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199902)52:2<135::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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