Effects of 3-beta-diol, an androgen metabolite with intrinsic estrogen-like effects, in modulating the aquaporin-9 expression in the rat efferent ductules

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Picciarelli Lima, Patrícia ^a   Oliveira, André G ^a   Reis, Adelina M ^a   Kalapothakis, Evanguedes ^a   Mahecha, Germán A B ^a   Hess, Rex A ^b   Oliveira, Cleida A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3BETA ANDROSTANEDIOL; AQUAPORIN 9; EPIANDROSTERONE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANDROGENS; ANDROSTANE-3,17-DIOL; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; CASTRATION; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES;

EID: 33750414318     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-4-51     Document Type: Article

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