Cortisol is involved in temperature-dependent sex determination in the Japanese flounder

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3900-3908

  Yamaguchi, Toshiya ^a,b   Yoshinaga, Norifumi ^a   Yazawa, Takashi ^a,b   Gen, Koichiro ^c   Kitano, Takeshi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYCLIC AMP; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; METYRAPONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954904472     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0228     Document Type: Article

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