Molecular cloning and expression of StAR protein in the canine corpus luteum during dioestrus

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 158-161

  Kowalewski, M P ^a   Hoffmann, B ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canine corpus luteum; Dioestrus; StAR

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DIESTRUS; DOG; DOWN REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIESTRUS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVULATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 42049086065     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-992121     Document Type: Article

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