Cloning and expression analysis of androgen receptor gene in chicken embryogenesis

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1607-1615

  Katoh, Hironori ^a   Ogino, Yukiko ^a   Yamada, Gen ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Chicken; Development; Flutamide; Ovary; Sexual character; Testis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OVARY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33344470956     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.01.093     Document Type: Article

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