Function and localization of oxytocin receptors in the reproductive tissue of rams

Reproduction

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 317-325

  Whittington, K ^a   Assinder, S J ^a   Parkinson, T ^a   Lapwood, K R ^a   Nicholson, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; LIGATION; LIVER; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETE TESTIS; SERTOLI CELL; SHEEP; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; UTERUS; VAS DEFERENS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0034903117     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.0.1220317     Document Type: Article

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