Cellular localization of androgen synthesis in equine granulosa-theca cell tumors: Immunohistochemical expression of 17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase cytochrome P450

Theriogenology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 393-401

  Assis Neto, A C A ^a,b   Ball, B A ^a   Browne, P ^a   Conley, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Androgen; Differentiation; Horse; Ovary; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; OVARY TUMOR; THECOMA; VETERINARY;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; THECOMA;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 77954542634     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2010.02.022     Document Type: Article

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