Immunocytochemical detection and spatial distribution of myosin light-chain kinase in preimplantation mouse embryos

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 147-155

  Kabir, Nurul ^a,c   Yamamura, Hideki ^a   Niki, Ichiro ^b   Iida, Yuji ^b   Uzzaman, Mahmud ^a   Sarkar, Devanand ^a   Hayasaka, Shizu ^a   Takagishi, Yoshiko ^a   Inouye, Minoru ^a   Hidaka, Hiroyoshi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; SMALL INTESTINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLASTOCYST; CROSS REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTESTINE, SMALL; LASERS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN KINASE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 14444270342     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19970615)278:3<147::AID-JEZ4>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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