Ontogeny of androgen receptor-like immunoreactivity in the reproductive tract of male Monodelphis domestica

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 852-860

  Sonea, Ioana M ^a   Iqbal, Javed ^a   Prins, Gail S ^b   Jacobson, Carol D ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES; BULBOURETHRAL GLANDS; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA, MALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESODERM; OPOSSUMS; PROSTATE; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 0030946313     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.4.852     Document Type: Article

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