Expression of HLA Class I genes in meiotic and post-meiotic human spermatogenic cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-110

  Guillaudeux, Thierry ^a   Comez, Edith ^b   Onno, Myriam ^c   Drénou, Bernard ^c   Segretain, Dominique ^b   Alberti, Saverio ^d   Lejeune, Hervé ^e   Fauchet, Renée ^c   Jégou, Bernard ^b   Le Bouteiller, Philippe ^a  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^e HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMETE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; MEIOSIS; METHYLATION; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MURINAE;

EID: 9544246766     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.1.99     Document Type: Article

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