Type II gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor transcripts in human sperm

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1741-1749

  Van Biljon, W ^a   Wykes, S ^b   Scherer, S ^a   Krawetz, S A ^b   Hapgood, J ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor; Sperm; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DNA; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RNA; GNRHR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 14; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOZOON;

MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, LHRH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 1842831523     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.101.002808     Document Type: Article

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