LCN6, a novel human epididymal lipocalin

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Hamil, Katherine G ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a,d   Sivashanmugam, P ^a,e   Anbalagan, M ^a,b   Yenugu, Suresh ^a   Soundararajan, Rama ^a,f   Grossman, Gail ^a   Rao, A J ^b   Birse, Charles E ^c   Ruben, Stephen M ^c,g   Richardson, Richard T ^a   Zhang, Yong Lian ^d   O'Rand, Michael G ^a   Petrusz, Peter ^a   French, Frank S ^a   Hall, Susan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIPOCALIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHEROMONE; TESTOSTERONE; CARRIER PROTEIN; LCN6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ACROSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CASTRATION; CHROMOSOME 9Q; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; MALE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; RHESUS MONKEY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME 9; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPOCALINS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 3042523427     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-112     Document Type: Article

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