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Epididymal Secretion and Resorption of Proteins

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The Epididymis, Sperm Maturation and Fertilisation

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Epididymal proteins obtained by shaking slices of tissue or from tissue minces (Gupta et al., 1974; Arora et al., 1975; Bose et al., 1975; Vreeburg. 1975; Huang and Johnson, 1976) necessarily contain proteins from blood and lymph in addition to those from the epididymal lumen. Bloodless micropuncture of the tubules provides uncontaminated samples with lower protein concentrations than blood (Table 18) and a variety of different proteins separable by gel electrophoresis (Koskimies and Kormano, 1975; Turner, 1979; Turner and Plesums, 1979; Hamilton, 1981b; Wong et al., 1981; Olson and Hinton, 1985) that are not present in serum.

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Cooper, T.G. (1986). Epididymal Secretion and Resorption of Proteins. In: The Epididymis, Sperm Maturation and Fertilisation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71471-9_15

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