Why do male mice spit soluble enzymes that hydrolyze extracellular nucleotides? Focus on "Prostatic acid phosphatase is the main acid phosphatase with 5′-ectonucleotidase activity in the male mouse saliva and regulates salivation"

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Weisman, Gary A ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE PROSTATE ISOENZYME; ADENOSINE A1 RECEPTOR; ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; ECTO 5' NUCLEOTIDASE; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ACINAR CELL; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOCYTOSIS; HYDROLYSIS; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; SALIVATION; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASES; SALIVA; SALIVATION;

EID: 84901747105     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00105.2014     Document Type: Editorial

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