Architecture of the nuclear periphery of rat pachytene spermatocytes: Distribution of nuclear envelope proteins in relation to synaptonemal complex attachment sites

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1235-1245

  Alsheimer, Manfred ^a   Von Glasenapp, Elisabeth ^a   Hock, Robert ^a   Benavente, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMIN C; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032961408     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.4.1235     Document Type: Article

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