Expression of five steroidogenic genes including aromatase gene at early developmental stages of chicken male and female embryos

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 103-109

  Nomura, Osamu ^a,b   Nakabayashi, Osamu ^c   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^c   Yasue, Hiroshi ^a   Mizuno, Shigeki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CHICK EMBRYO; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GONADS; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROIDS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033462207     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0760(99)00127-2     Document Type: Article

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