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Members of the murine Pate family are predominantly expressed in the epididymis in a segment-specific fashion and regulated by androgens and other testicular factors

BACKGROUND: Spermatozoa leaving the testis are not able to fertilize the egg in vivo. They must undergo further maturation in the epididymis. Proteins secreted to the epididymal lumen by the epithelial cells interact with the spermatozoa and enable these maturational changes, and are responsible for...

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Autores principales: Turunen, Heikki T, Sipilä, Petra, Pujianto, Dwi Ari, Damdimopoulos, Anastasios E, Björkgren, Ida, Huhtaniemi, Ilpo, Poutanen, Matti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21942998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-9-128