Epididymal genomics and the search for a male contraceptive

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 178-183

  Turner, T T ^a   Johnston, D S ^b   Jelinsky, S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraception; Epididymis; Gene; Gene expression; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTRACEPTION; DATA BASE; DOWN REGULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; MALE; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33646199098     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2005.12.042     Document Type: Article

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