Sex steroids and the initiation of puberty in male african catfish (Clarias gariepinus)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 6 44-6, 1998, Pages

  Cavaco, J Eduardo B ^a   Vilrokx, Cécile ^b   Trudeau, Vance L ^c   Schulz, Rüdiger W ^a   Goos, Henk J T ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Juvenile males; Secondary sexual characteristics; Steroid hormones; Teleost fish; Testicular androgen secretion in vitro

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ANDROGEN RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0032415568     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.275.6.r1793     Document Type: Article

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