Carnitine/organic cation transporter OCTN2-mediated transport of carnitine in primary-cultured epididymal epithelial cells

Reproduction

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 931-937

  Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a,b   Irokawa, Masanori ^a   Maeda, Tomoji ^a   Tsuji, Akira ^b   Tamai, Ikumi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; CARNITINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; SODIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACETYLCARNITINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; BETAINE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARNITINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; LEUCINE; LYSINE; MALE; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PYRILAMINE; QUINIDINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SODIUM; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 29244432787     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00737     Document Type: Article

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