Androgen-dependent mechanisms of Wolffian duct development and their perturbation by flutamide

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4820-4830

  Welsh, Michelle ^a   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a   Marchetti, Nicholas I ^a   Sharpe, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EPITHELIUM CELL; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STROMA CELL;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUTAMIDE; GENITALIA, MALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMAL CELLS; WOLFFIAN DUCT;

EID: 33748748561     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0149     Document Type: Article

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