Toward understanding the endocrine regulation of gonadal somatic cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3662-3665

  Poutanen, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BETA CATENIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT4 PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRYPTORCHISM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GERM CELL; GONAD; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 33746062803     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0604     Document Type: Short Survey

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