Quillaja saponins inhibit tilapia aromatase activity in vitro

Cybium

Volumn 32, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 80-82

  Golan, Matan ^a   Avitan, Ayelet ^a   Qutob, Mutaz ^b   Dweik, Hassan ^b   Abu Lafi, Saleh ^b   Focken, Ulfert ^c   Francis, George ^c   Becker, Klaus ^c   Kerem, Zohar ^a   Levavi Sivan, Berta ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

methyltestosterone; 17 ; Aromatase; Quillaja saponins; Saponins; Sex inversion; Tilapia

Indexed keywords

QUILLAJA; QUILLAJA SAPONARIA; SAPONARIA; TILAPIA;

EID: 69249103758     PISSN: 03990974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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