Overexpression of androgen receptors in target musculature confers androgen sensitivity to motoneuron dendrites

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 639-650

  Huguenard, Anna L ^a   Fernando, Shannon M ^b   Monks, D Ashley ^b,c   Sengelaub, Dale R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CHOLERA TOXIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATED MALE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TRANSGENICS; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEMINAL VESICLES;

EID: 79951613304     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-1197     Document Type: Article

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