Gonadotropin-independent regulation of steroidogenesis in the fetal rat testis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 116-123

  El Gehani, Faraj ^a   Zhang, Fu Ping ^a   Pakarinen, Pirjo ^a   Rannikko, Antti ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE 27; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; PITUITARY GLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; STEROIDS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031973722     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.1.116     Document Type: Article

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