New insights into the role of androgens in wolffian duct stabilization in male and female rodents

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2472-2480

  Welsh, Michelle ^a   Sharpe, Richard M ^a   Walker, Marion ^a   Smith, Lee B ^a   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUTAMIDE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH INHIBITION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GONADAL DISEASE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RODENT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; WISTAR RAT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RODENTIA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE; VIRILISM; WOLFFIAN DUCTS;

EID: 66449083083     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0529     Document Type: Article

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