Tamoxifen induces masculinization of genetic females and regulates P450 aromatase and Müllerian inhibiting substance mRNA expression in Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1171-1177

  Kitano, Takeshi ^a   Yoshinaga, Norifumi ^a   Shiraishi, Eri ^a   Koyanagi, Takashi ^a   Abe, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estrogen; Mullerian inhibiting substance; Paralichthys olivaceus; Sex differentiation; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FADROZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; FLOUNDER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALICHTHYS OLIVACEUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; MALE; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TAMOXIFEN;

PARALICHTHYS OLIVACEUS;

EID: 34547889479     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20603     Document Type: Article

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