Expression patterns of taste receptor type 1 subunit 3 and α-gustducin in the mouse testis during development

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-30

  Gong, Ting ^a   Wei, Quanwei ^a   Mao, Dagan ^a   Shi, Fangxiong ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; G ; Mouse testis; T1R3

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; LEYDIG CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; TASTE BUD; TESTIS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM;

ALPHA-GUSTDUCIN, MOUSE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 1;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MALE; MICE, INBRED ICR; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84953636446     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2015.11.001     Document Type: Article

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