Ontogeny of androgen receptor expression in the ovine fetal central nervous system and pituitary

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 439, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-156

  Wood, Charles E ^a   Keller Wood, Maureen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Neuroendocrinology; Parturition; Placenta; Real time PCR; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP;

EID: 44649097506     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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