What signals testis descent?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 687-689

  Tremblay, Jacques J ^a  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN LIKE 3; PEPTIDE HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYPTORCHISM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS DESCENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

EID: 77958565063     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.087197     Document Type: Note

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