Postnatal expression and androgen regulation of HOXBES2 homeoprotein in rat epididymis

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 755-771

  Prabagaran, Esakki ^a   Hegde, Uma C ^a   Moodbidri, Sudhir B ^a   Bandivdekar, Atmaram H ^a   Raghavan, Vijaya P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

Castration; DHT supplementation; EDS treatment; Efferent duct ligation; Postnatal development

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMESYLATE; HOXB2 HOMEODOMAIN CONTAINING EPIDIDYMIS SPECIFIC SPERM PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MESYLATES; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS;

EID: 34548658517     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.106.002394     Document Type: Article

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