Essential roles of androgen signaling in Wolffian duct stabilization and epididymal cell differentiation

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1640-1651

  Murashima, Aki ^a   Miyagawa, Shinichi ^a,f   Ogino, Yukiko ^a,f   Nishida Fukuda, Hisayo ^a,g   Araki, Kimi ^a   Matsumoto, Takahiro ^b,h   Kaneko, Takehito ^a,i   Yoshinaga, Kazuya ^c   Yamamura, Ken Ichi ^a   Kurita, Takeshi ^d   Kato, Shigeaki ^b   Moon, Anne M ^e   Yamada, Gen ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

ⁱ KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P63;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NUDE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 79953169466     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-1121     Document Type: Article

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