Steroid 5α-reductase type 1 immunolocalized in the anterior pituitary of intact and castrated male rats

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 359-366

  Yokoi, Hiromichi ^a   Tsuruo, Yoshihiro ^a   Miyamoto, Tadayuki ^a   Kitagawa, Kouki ^b   Futaki, Shiroh ^c   Ishimura, Kazunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029827209     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02473294     Document Type: Article

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