Androgen receptor messenger ribonucleic acid in brains and pituitaries of male rhesus monkeys: Studies on distribution, hormonal control, and relationship to luteinizing hormone secretion

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1251-1256

  Abdelgadir, Salah E ^a   Roselli, Charles E ^a   Choate, Jerome V A ^a   Resko, John A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASTRATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHESUS MONKEY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032917011     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.5.1251     Document Type: Article

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