Testis cord differentiation after the sex determination stage is independent of Sox9 but fails in the combined absence of Sox9 and Sox8

Developmental Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 301-312

  Barrionuevo, Francisco ^a   Georg, Ina ^a   Scherthan, Harry ^b   Lécureuil, Charlotte ^c   Guillou, Florian ^c   Wegner, Michael ^d   Scherer, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Radiobiologie der Bundeswehr   (Germany)

^c UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amh; Mouse testis differentiation; Sox8; Sox9; Testis cords

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

MUS;

EID: 60849087698     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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