Expression of Spermadhesin Genes in Porcine Male and Female Reproductive Tracts

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-41

  Ekhlasi Hundrieser, Mahnaz ^a   Sinowatz, Fred ^b   De Wilke, Irene Greiser ^a   Waberski, Dagmar ^a   Töpfer Petersen, Edda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cDNA sequences; CUB domain; Epididymis; Gene expression; Seminal plasma; Spermadhesins

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN; SPERMADHESIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SWINE;

EID: 0036363373     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1128     Document Type: Article

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