Temporal silencing of an androgenic gland-specific insulin-like gene affecting phenotypical gender differences and spermatogenesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1278-1286

  Ventura, Tomer ^a   Manor, Rivka ^a   Aflalo, Eliahu D ^a   Weil, Simy ^a   Raviv, Shaul ^a   Glazer, Lilah ^a   Sagi, Amir ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ANDROGEN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DNA LIBRARY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENDER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN LIKE ACTIVITY; INSULIN LIKE ANDROGENIC GLAND GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRAWN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PALAEMONIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALAEMONIDAE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOMATOMEDINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 67649846158     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0906     Document Type: Article

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