Differential modulation of bovine epididymal activity by oxytocin and noradrenaline

Reproduction

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 493-501

  Mewe, Marco ^a   Wulfsen, Iris ^a   Middendorff, Ralf ^b   Bauer, Christine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; THREONINE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYTOCIN; PRAZOSIN; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOHIMBINE;

BOVINAE;

EID: 34548572042     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0220     Document Type: Article

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