Spermatid translocation in the rat seminiferous epithelium: Coupling membrane trafficking machinery to a junction plaque

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1036-1046

  Beach, Scott F ^a   Vogl, A Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APYRASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033021426     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.4.1036     Document Type: Article

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