Prostaglandin D2 synthase secreted in the caput epididymidis displays spatial and temporal delay between messenger RNA and protein expression during postnatal development

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 174-179

  Fouchécourt, Sophie ^a   Castella, Sandrine ^a   Dacheux, Françoise ^a   Dacheux, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Male reproductive tract; Puberty

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN D2 SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOMERASE; PROSTAGLANDIN R2 D ISOMERASE; PROSTAGLANDIN R2 D-ISOMERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME RELEASE; EPIDIDYMIS; FETUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA PROCESSING; SECRETION; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; EPIDIDYMIS; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MALE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037235114     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.006577     Document Type: Article

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