Effects of aromatase inhibitor on sex differentiation and levels of P45017α and P450arom messenger ribonucleic acid of gonads in chicken embryos

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 241-246

  Abinawanto, ^a   Shimada, Kiyoshi ^a   Yoshida, Kumiko ^a   Saito, Noboru ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 0029986934     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0065     Document Type: Article

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