hOR17-4 as a potential therapeutic target

Drug News and Perspectives

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 165-171

  Spehr, Marc ^a   Hatt, Hanns ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HOR17 4; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; CHEMOTAXIS; DRUG TARGETING; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MALE; ODORS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 2942746759     PISSN: 02140934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dnp.2004.17.3.829014     Document Type: Review

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