Androgenic regulation of ventral epithelial bud number and pattern in mouse urogenital sinus

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 373-385

  Allgeier, Sarah H ^a   Lin, Tien Min ^a   Moore, Robert W ^a   Vezina, Chad M ^a,b   Abler, Lisa L ^a   Peterson, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo p dioxin (TCDD); 5 dihydrotestosterone; Bud initiation; Epithelial budding patterns; Prenatal prostate and urethral gland development; Testicular feminization (Tfm) mouse; Urogenital sinus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FETUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROGENITAL SINUS; VENTRAL EPITHELIAL BUD;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY PATTERNING; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUTAMIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROSTATE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERATOGENS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; URETHRA;

MUS;

EID: 75149165329     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22169     Document Type: Article

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