The nuclear receptor SF-1 mediates sexually dimorphic expression of Mullerian inhibiting substance, in vivo

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1799-1807

  Giuili, Galicia ^a,b   Shen, Wen Hui ^a   Ingraham, Holly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Gonadal specific expression; MIS; Orphan nuclear receptors; Reproductive biology; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GRANULOSA CELL; MALE; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030922218     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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