The nerve of ovulation-inducing factor in semen

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 15042-15047

  Ratto, Marcelo H ^a   Leduc, Yvonne A ^b   Valderrama, Ximena P ^a   Van Straaten, Karin E ^b   Delbaere, Louis T J ^b   Pierson, Roger A ^c   Adams, Gregg P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fertility; Hypothalamus; Neuroendocrine; Neurotrophins

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR BETA SUBUNIT; OVULATION INDUCING FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BULL (BOVINE); COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LLAMA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVULATION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OVULATION; SEMEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BOVINAE; LAMA (MAMMAL); LAMA GLAMA; MURINAE; SUS;

EID: 84866275994     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206273109     Document Type: Article

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