5α-reduced androgens play a key role in murine parturition

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 380-392

  Mahendroo, Mala S ^a   Cala, Kristine M ^a   Russell, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANEDIOL; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRILIZATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHOLESTENONE 5 ALPHA-REDUCTASE; CROSSES, GENETIC; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PREGNANCY; PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0029990372     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.10.4.380     Document Type: Article

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