Expression of heat shock protein 70 in normal and cryptorchid human excurrent duct

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 197-202

  Légaré, Christine ^a   Thabet, Michel ^a   Sullivan, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Epididymis; Gene expression; Hsp70; Human

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; CASE REPORT; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INGUINAL REGION; MACACA; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RADIATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VAS DEFERENS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; CRYPTORCHIDISM; EPIDIDYMIS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VAS DEFERENS;

CAPUT;

EID: 1842532615     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gah027     Document Type: Article

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