Androgen receptors in two androgen-mediated, sexually dimorphic characters of frogs

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-180

  Emerson, Sharon B ^a   Greig, Ann ^a   Carroll, Lara ^a   Prins, Gail S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0032947551     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7251     Document Type: Article

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