Expression of connexin 43 in the porcine foetal gonads during development

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 272-277

  Knapczyk Stwora, K ^a   Durlej Grzesiak, M ^a   Duda, M ^a   Slomczynska, M ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 43; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONNEXIN 43; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADS; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE;

SUS;

EID: 84875053960     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2012.02144.x     Document Type: Article

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