Development of the renal sexual segment in immature snakes: Effect of sex steroid hormones

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-64

  Krohmer, Randolph W ^a   Martinez, Dora ^a   Mason, Robert T ^b  

^a SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; Development; Nerodia; Renal sexual segment; Sexual granules; Snakes; Testosterone; Thamnophis

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY MASS; KIDNEY TUBULE; MALE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SNAKE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

NERODIA; NERODIA RHOMBIFER; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS PARIETALIS;

EID: 4744346574     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.06.015     Document Type: Article

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