Comparative profiling of genes and miRNAs expressed in the newborn, young adult, and aged human epididymides

Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica - Tập 42 Số 2 - Trang 145-153 - 2010
Jinsong Zhang1, Qiang Liu2, Wei Zhang3, Jianyuan Li4, Zheng Li5, Zhong-Yi Tang6, Yixue Li6, Chunsheng Han3, Susan H. Hall7, Yonglian Zhang2
1Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Andrology, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
3State Key Laboratory of Planned Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
4Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, China
5Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University,Shanghai 200001,China)
6Bioinformatics Center, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
7Laboratories for Reproductive Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

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