Prenatal androgen exposure leads to alterations in gene and protein expression in the ovine fetal ovary

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2048-2059

  Hogg, Kirsten ^a   McNeilly, Alan S ^a   Duncan, W Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CYP11A; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME P450 17; ENZYME; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 1; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 3; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; ROBO1 PROTEIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; STAR PROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR; STEROIDOGENIC ENZYME; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL VOLUME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION PROTEINS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; OVARY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, LH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 79955376303     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-1219     Document Type: Article

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