Rooster feathering, androgenic alopecia, and hormone-dependent tumor growth: What is in common?

Differentiation

Volumn 72, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 474-488

  Mayer, Julie Ann ^a   Chuong, Cheng Ming ^a   Widelitz, Randall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Breast cancer; Estrogen; Feather; Hair; Morphogenesis; Organogenesis; Prostate cancer; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; ANDROGEN;

ALOPECIA; BREAST CANCER; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKEN; EPITHELIUM; FEATHER; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HAIR; HIRSUTISM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; MAMMARY GLAND; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALOPECIA; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEATHERS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 21644482520     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.2004.07209003.x     Document Type: Review

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