Expression of cannabinoid receptor 1 in mouse testes

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 247-255

  Gye, Myung Chan ^a   Kang, H H ^a   Kang, H J ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CB1; Mouse; Testis

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABIS; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEYDIG CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKING; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

EID: 79960987094     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014850190898845     Document Type: Article

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