Claudin-7 expressed on lateral membrane of rat epididymal epithelium does not form aberrant tight junction strands

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1431-1438

  Inai, Tetsuichiro ^a   Sengoku, Akihito ^a   Hirose, Eiji ^a   Iida, Hiroshi ^b   Shibata, Yosaburo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Claudin 7; Claudin 8; Epididymis; Freeze fracture; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 7; CLAUDIN 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; FREEZE FRACTURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; FREEZE FRACTURING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

RATTUS;

EID: 35948991135     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20597     Document Type: Article

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