A complex containing α6β1-integrin and phosphorylated focal adhesion kinase between Sertoli cells and elongated spermatids during spermatid release from the seminiferous epithelium

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 759-770

  Beardsley, Amanda ^a,b   Robertson, David M ^a   O'Donnell, Lisa ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; BETA TUBULIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; ESTRADIOL; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE; VERY LATE ACTIVATION ANTIGEN 6; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ESTRADIOL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; INTEGRIN ALPHA6BETA1; MALE; MICROTUBULES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE; TUBULIN;

EID: 33749871243     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06867     Document Type: Article

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