Sexual differentiation of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus is not mediated solely by androgen receptors in muscle fibers

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3207-3213

  Niel, Lee ^a   Shah, Amit H ^a   Lewis, Gareth A ^a   Mo, Kaiguo ^a   Chatterjee, Diptendu ^a   Fernando, Shannon M ^b   Mei, Hua Hong ^c   Chang, William Y ^c   Vollmayr, Peter ^c   Rosen, Jon ^c   Miner, Jeffrey N ^c   Monks, D Ashley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CELL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPINE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 65549145308     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1478     Document Type: Article

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