Testicular and epididymal ADAMs: Expression and function during fertilization

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 550-560

  Cho, Chunghee ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; ADAM1 PROTEIN; ADAM10 ENDOPEPTIDASE; ADAM11 PROTEIN; ADAM12 PROTEIN; ADAM15 PROTEIN; ADAM17 PROTEIN; ADAM18 PROTEIN; ADAM19 PROTEIN; ADAM1B PROTEIN; ADAM2 PROTEIN; ADAM20 PROTEIN; ADAM21 PROTEIN; ADAM22 PROTEIN; ADAM23 PROTEIN; ADAM24 PROTEIN; ADAM25 PROTEIN; ADAM26 PROTEIN; ADAM29 PROTEIN; ADAM3 PROTEIN; ADAM30 PROTEIN; ADAM32 PROTEIN; ADAM33 PROTEIN; ADAM34 PROTEIN; ADAM4 PROTEIN; ADAM5 PROTEIN; ADAM6 PROTEIN; ADAM7 PROTEIN; ADAM8 PROTEIN; ADAM9 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL INTERACTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EXON; FERTILIZATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ADAM PROTEINS; ANIMALS; DNA; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84867572642     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2012.167     Document Type: Review

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