Nuage proteins: Their localization in subcellular structures of spermatogenic cells as revealed by immunoelectron microscopy

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Yokota, Sadaki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunoelectron microscopy; Nuage and non nuage compartments; Nuage protein; Spermatogenic cells

Indexed keywords

BRUNOL2 PROTEIN; DDX25 PROTEIN; GONADOTROPIN REGULATED TESTICULAR RNA HELICASE; MURINE HOMOLOG OF A DROSOPHILA GENE MAELSTROM PROTEIN; NANOS1 PROTEIN; NUAGE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIDS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RNA HELICASES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84860814803     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: 1432119X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-012-0962-z     Document Type: Review

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