Meiotic activation of rat pachytene spermatocytes with okadaic acid: The behaviour of synaptonemal complex components SYN1/SCP1 and COR1/SCP3

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-434

  Tarsounas, Madalina ^a   Pearlman, Ronald E ^a   Moens, Peter B ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Meiosis; Okadaic acid; Spermatocyte; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

OKADAIC ACID; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENISTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OKADAIC ACID; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RATS; SPERMATOCYTES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033046173     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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