New Insights into the Regulation of Mammalian Sex Determination and Male Sex Differentiation

Vitamins and Hormones

Volumn 70, Issue , 2005, Pages 387-413

  Viger, Robert S ^a   Silversides, David W ^b   Tremblay, Jacques J ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MULLERIAN INHIBITING HORMONE; MULLERIAN-INHIBITING HORMONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SRY PROTEIN, HUMAN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; GONAD; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GONADS; HUMANS; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 20444480612     PISSN: 00836729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0083-6729(05)70013-3     Document Type: Article

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