Ontogeny of anti-Mullerian hormone, 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and androgen receptor expression during ovine fetal gonadal development

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-32

  Sweeney, T ^a,b   Saunders, P T K ^a   Millar, M R ^a   Brooks, A N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; GROWTH INHIBITOR; MULLERIAN INHIBITING HORMONE; MULLERIAN-INHIBITING HORMONE; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; TESTIS; ANIMAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MUELLERIAN DUCT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MULLERIAN DUCTS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SHEEP; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS;

EID: 0030610037     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1530027     Document Type: Article

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