Transport of IgG across the blood-luminal barrier of the male reproductive tract of the rat and the effect of estradiol administration on reabsorption of fluid and IgG by the epididymal ducts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 688-694

  Knee, Rebecca A ^a   Hickey, Danica K ^b   Beagley, Kenneth W ^b   Jones, Russell C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ductuli efferentes; Epididymis; Estradiol; Immunology; Male reproductive tract; Wolffian duct

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; FLUID TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTON TRANSPORT; RAT; RETE TESTIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD; BODY FLUIDS; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTRADIOL; GENITALIA, MALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, FC; TESTIS; TETANUS TOXOID;

CAPUT; WOLFFIA;

EID: 25144496461     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.041079     Document Type: Article

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