Minireview: Transcriptional regulation of gonadal development and differentiation

Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1035-1042

  Park, Susan Y ^a   Jameson, J Larry ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P450 17; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FOLLISTATIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PROTEASE NEXIN I; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMRT1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FGF9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOG2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAESTRO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANIN 1; WNT PROTEIN; WNT4 PROTEIN; WT1 PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; THECA CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADS; HUMANS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OVARY; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14244257228     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2004-1454     Document Type: Short Survey

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