Tissue immunoexpression and messenger ribonucleic acid localization of inhibin/activin subunit in human epididymis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-85

  Bahathiq, Adil O ^a,b   Stewart, Roy L ^b   Baxter, Lynne ^b   Wells, Michael ^b   Moore, Harry D ^a   Ledger, William L ^a,c  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activins; caput; cauda; follistatin; inhibins

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; VASECTOMY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EPIDIDYMIS; FOLLISTATIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INHIBINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 11844259496     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.05.104     Document Type: Article

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