Transcript profiles and triiodothyronine regulation of sex steroid- and thyroid hormone-related genes in the gonad-mesonephros complex of Silurana tropicalis

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-149

  Duarte Guterman, Paula ^a   Trudeau, Vance L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

5 Reductase; Androgen; Aromatase; Deiodinase; Estrogen; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; LIOTHYRONINE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; THYROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMRT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MESONEPHROS; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SILURANA TROPICALIS; TADPOLE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; HUMANS; MALE; MESONEPHROS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; XENOPUS;

EID: 78149407640     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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