Endocrine differentiation of fetal ovaries and testes of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta): Timing of androgen-independent versus androgen-driven genital development

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 649-659

  Browne, P ^a   Place, N J ^b   Vidal, J D ^a   Moore, I T ^c   Cunha, G R ^d   Glickman, S E ^b   Conley, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME B5; CYTOCHROME P450C17; MUELLERIAN HORMONE ANTIBODY; SEX HORMONE; STEROID 17,20 LYASE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANDROGEN RELEASE; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYENA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ANDROGENS; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENITALIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYAENIDAE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OVARY; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

CROCUTA CROCUTA;

EID: 33750082201     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01120     Document Type: Article

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