Androgen receptors and gender-specific distribution of alkaline phosphatase in human thyroid cartilage

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 381-388

  Claassen, Horst ^a,b   Mönig, Heiner ^c   Sel, Saadettin ^a   Werner, Jochen A ^d   Paulsen, Friedrich ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkaline phosphatase; Gender specific mineralization; Laryngeal cartilages; Serum sexual hormone levels; Sexual hormone receptors

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARTILAGE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENDER; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MALE; MINERALIZATION; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CHILD; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID CARTILAGE;

EID: 33747244405     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-006-0172-7     Document Type: Article

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