Photoperiod-induced changes in androgen receptor expression in testes and accessory sex glands of the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 898-908

  Tähkä, Klaus M ^a   Zhuang, Ya Hua ^b   Tähkä, Sinikka ^a   Tuohimaa, Pentti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; VOLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CELL NUCLEUS; DARKNESS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITALIA, MALE; LEYDIG CELLS; LIGHT; MALE; PERIODICITY; PROSTATE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SERTOLI CELLS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0343329814     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.4.898     Document Type: Article

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