Sexual dimorphism in the brain aromatase expression and activity, and in the central expression of other steroidogenic enzymes during the period of sex differentiation in monosex rainbow trout populations

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 346-355

  Vizziano Cantonnet, Denise ^a   Anglade, Isabelle ^b   Pellegrini, Elisabeth ^b   Gueguen, Marie Madeleine ^b   Fostier, Alexis ^c   Guiguen, Yann ^c   Kah, Olivier ^b  

^a Laboratorio de Fisiología de la Reproducción y Ecología de Peces   (Uruguay)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Brain; Estrogen receptors; Fish; Sex differentiation; Steroidogenic enzymes

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450 17; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FORKHEAD BOX L2 A PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; STEROID; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAINBOW TROUT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 78650678634     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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