Androgen down-regulated and region-specific expression of germ cell nuclear factor in mouse epididymis

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1612-1619

  Hu, Yuanxin ^a   Zhou, Zongyao ^b   Xu, Chen ^b   Shang, Quan ^a   Zhang, You Duan ^a   Zhang, Yong Lian ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; GERM CELL NUCLEAR FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0037387299     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220915     Document Type: Article

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