Sex differences in endogenous retinoid release in the post-embryonic spinal cord of the western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis affinis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 414, Issue , 1997, Pages 95-108

  Rosa Molinar, E ^a   McCaffery, P J ^b   Fritzsch, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; RETINOID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FISH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGING; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; RETINAL DEHYDROGENASE; RETINOIDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPINAL CORD; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0030897250     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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