Identification and characterization of myosin from rat testicular peritubular myoid cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1210-1218

  Fernández, Dario ^a   Bertoldi, Maria V ^a   Gómez, Laura ^a   Morales, Alfonsina ^a   Callegari, Eduardo ^b   Lopez, Luis A ^a,c  

^a Instituto de Histologia y Embriologia   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c IHEM   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Male reproductive tract; Myosin; Peritubular myoid cells; Seminiferous tubule; Testis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ENDOTHELIN 1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITUBULAR MYOID CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL SEPARATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SILVER STAINING; SOLUBILITY; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; TRYPSIN; TUNICA INTIMA;

MAMMALIA; MYOIDA; RATTUS;

EID: 56749172651     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.066472     Document Type: Article

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