Discovery in Silico and Characterization in Vitro of Novel Genes Exclusively Expressed in the Mouse Epididymis

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2138-2151

  Penttinen, Jenni ^a   Pujianto, Dwi Ari ^a   Sipilä, Petra ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^a   Poutanen, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CLONE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MATURATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUBERTY; RNASE10 GENE; RNASE9 GENE; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPINT4 GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIDIDYMIS; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242361715     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2003-0008     Document Type: Article

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