Transport and rearrangement of the intra-acrosomal protein acrin1 (MN7) during spermiogenesis in the guinea pig testis

Anatomical Record

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-140

  Yoshinaga, Kazuya ^a   Tanii, Ichiro ^a   Oh Oka, Tadasuke ^a   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Electron microscopy; Guinea pig; Immunocytochemistry; Intra acrosomal protein; Spermiogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACRIN 1; ACROSOME PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034212515     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(20000601)259:2<131::AID-AR3>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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