Identification of novel epididymal genes by expression profiling and in silico gene discovery

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 163-168

  Jalkanen, Jenni ^a   Shariatmadari, Ramin ^a   Pujianto, Dwi Ari ^a   Sipilä, Petra ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^a,b   Poutanen, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Expressed sequence tag; Gene expression; In silico; Microarray

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646176867     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2005.12.040     Document Type: Article

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