Chaperonin 10 in the rat oocytes and early embryos: Its expression and activity for early pregnancy factor

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 242-248

  Kawamura, Kazuhiro ^a   Fukuda, Jun ^a   Itoh, Hideaki ^a   Ito, Kazuei ^b   Kodama, Hideya ^a   Kumagai, Jin ^a   Kumagai, Akiko ^a   Tanaka, Toshinobu ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cpn 10; Cpn 60; Early pregnancy factor; Polymerase chain reaction; Rosette inhibition test

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; EARLY PREGNANCY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ROSETTE TEST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0033668642     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.8755-8920.2000.440409.x     Document Type: Article

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