Glutathione-independent prostaglandin D2 synthase in ram and stallion epididymal fluids: Origin and regulation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 558-566

  Fouchécourt, Sophie ^a   Dacheux, Françoise ^a   Dacheux, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN D2 SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

ANIMALIA; CAPUT; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0344061552     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.3.558     Document Type: Article

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