Aromatase inhibitors block natural sex change and induce male function in the protandrous black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli Bleeker: Possible mechanism of natural sex change

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1749-1754

  Lee, Yan Horn ^a   Yueh, Wen Shiun ^a   Du, Jin Lien ^a   Sun, Lian Tien ^a   Chang, Ching Fong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Luteinizing hormone; Male sexual function; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; FADROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FISH; FOREBRAIN; GONAD; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEX TRANSFORMATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERM;

ACANTHOPAGRUS; ACANTHOPAGRUS SCHLEGELII; ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BRAIN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GONADS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PERCIFORMES; PITUITARY GLAND; SEASONS; SEMEN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0035988222     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.6.1749     Document Type: Article

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