Professor Alfred Jost: The builder of modern sex differentiation

Sexual Development

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 55-63

  Josso, N ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Anti M llerian hormone (AMH); M llerian ducts; M llerian inhibiting substance (MIS); Sertoli cells; Sex differentiation; Testis

Indexed keywords

MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CAREER; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FRANCE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SKILL; TEACHER; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGY; FRANCE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

WOLFFIA;

EID: 46049120258     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000129690     Document Type: Review

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