Limb muscles are androgen targets in an acrobatic tropical bird

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1042-1049

  Feng, Ni Y ^a   Katz, Amnon ^a   Day, Lainy B ^b   Barske, Julia ^a   Schlinger, Barney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MANAKIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHRE BELLIED FLYCATCHER; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOENZYMATIC ASSAY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PASSERIFORMES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77149174801     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0901     Document Type: Article

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