Oxytocin and vasopressin expression in the ovine testis and epididymis: Changes with the onset of spermatogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 448-456

  Assinder, S J ^a   Carey, M ^a   Parkinson, T ^a   Nicholson, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Male reproductive tract; Oxytocin; Puberty; Sperm motility and transport; Testes; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; VASOPRESSIN RELEASE;

EID: 0033903447     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod63.2.448     Document Type: Article

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