Inhibin and activin have antagonistic paracrine effects on gonadal steroidogenesis during the development of the chicken embryo

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1229-1237

  Rombauts, L ^a,b   Vanmontfort, D ^a   Decuypere, E ^a   Verhoeven, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MONASH IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; ACTIVIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FORSKOLIN; INHIBIN; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0029996075     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.6.1229     Document Type: Article

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