Identification of testosterone-dependent volatile compounds and proteins in the preputial gland of rat Rattus norvegicus

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-43

  Ponmanickam, Ponnirul ^a   Palanivelu, Krishnamoorthy ^a   Govindaraj, Shanmugam ^a   Baburajendran, Ramaswamy ^a   Habara, Yoshiaki ^b   Archunan, Govindaraju ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Castration; Preputial gland; Rat; Sex associated proteins; Testosterone; Volatile compounds

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE; FARNESOL; GERANYL LINALOOL; LANOSTEROL; LINALOOL; SEX PHEROMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; SUPPLEMENTATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 77952542283     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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