Differential splicing of the phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase gene in diploid and haploid male germ cells in the rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 405-411

  Puglisi, Rossella ^a   Tramer, Federica ^b   Panfili, Enrico ^b   Micali, Fulvio ^b   Sandri, Gabriella ^b   Boitani, Carla ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Sperm maturation; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPID HYDROPEROXIDE GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SELENOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DIPLOIDY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA SPLICING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DIPLOIDY; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HAPLOIDY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MALE; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037307101     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.006544     Document Type: Article

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