Selective estrogen receptor α activation disrupts sex organ differentiation and induces expression of vitellogenin II and very low-density apolipoprotein II in Japanese quail embryos

Reproduction

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-186

  Mattsson, Anna ^a   Olsson, Jan A ^a   Brunström, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; APOLIPOPROTEIN; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; VERY LOW DENSITY APOLIPOPROTEIN 2; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX; EMBRYO; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LIVER; MALE; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS; AROMATASE; COTURNIX; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; MALE; MULLERIAN DUCTS; OVARY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PYRAZOLES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; VITELLOGENINS;

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA;

EID: 50349091249     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0100     Document Type: Article

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