Intercellular organelle traffic through cytoplasmic bridges in early spermatids of the rat: Mechanisms of haploid gene product sharing

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2768-2780

  Ventelä, Sami ^a   Toppari, Jorma ^a   Parvinen, Martti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN TRA54; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GRANULE; CELL MATURATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHROMATID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GERM CELL; GOLGI COMPLEX; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLGI APPARATUS; HAPLOIDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; ORGANELLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038107491     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-10-0647     Document Type: Article

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