Mouse Spam1 (PH-20) is a multifunctional protein: Evidence for its expression in the female reproductive tract

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 446-454

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Martin DeLeon, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Female reproductive tract; Fertilization; Testis; Uterus; Vagina

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA; SPERM ADHESION MOLECULE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MESOTHELIUM; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVIDUCT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UTERUS; VAGINA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAYS; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UTERUS; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0037962077     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.013854     Document Type: Article

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