Ontogeny of 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and 5α-reductase in the frog brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 490-493

  Vallarino, Mauro ^a   Mathieu, Maura ^a   Do Rego, Jean Luc ^b   Bruzzone, Federica ^a   Chartrel, Nicolas ^b   Luu The, Van ^c   Pelletier, Georges ^c   Vaudry, Hubert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Frog; Immunohistochemistry; Neurosteroids; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; NEUROSTEROID; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIENCEPHALON; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FROG; HATCHING; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; ONTOGENY; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; STEROIDOGENESIS; TADPOLE; TELENCEPHALON;

ANURA;

EID: 22144442748     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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