Growth factor-stimulated mitogen-activated kinase (MAPK) phosphorylation in the rat epididymis is limited by segmental boundaries

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 598-604

  Tomsig, Jose L ^a   Usanovic, Sanja ^a   Turner, Terry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Growth factors; Kinases; Male reproductive tract; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRACER; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE SEPTUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSTITIUM; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION;

ANIMALS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PERFUSION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33749058747     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.052399     Document Type: Article

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