The hormonal control of testicular descent

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-31

  Nation, Tamara R ^a,b   Balic, Adam ^a,b   Southwell, Bridget R ^a,b   Newgreen, Donald F ^a,b   Hutson, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Royal Children's Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen; Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide (CGRP); Cryptorchidism; Insulin Like Hormone 3 (INSL3)

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; INSULIN LIKE HORMONE 3; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PRASTERONE; RELAXIN LIKE FACTOR; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSULIN; LEYDIG INSULIN LIKE PROTEIN; LEYDIG INSULIN-LIKE PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANDROGEN RELEASE; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CREMASTER MUSCLE; CRYPTORCHISM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GUBERNACULUM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEYDIG CELL; LIGAMENT; LIMB BUD; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NOONAN SYNDROME; OVARY; PATENT PROCESSUS VAGINALIS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; ROUND LIGAMENT OF UTERUS; SCROTUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPINAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; TESTIS DESCENT; ANIMAL; MALE; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; PROTEINS; TESTIS;

EID: 70349571912     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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