Distribution of aromatase and sex steroid receptors in the baculum during the rat life cycle: effects of estrogen during the early development of the baculum

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-112

  Yonezawa, Tomohiro ^a   Higashi, Mayuko ^a   Yoshioka, Kazuki ^a   Mutoh, Ken ichiro ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Estradiol receptor; Male reproductive tract; Penis; Steroid hormone receptors; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROCARTILAGE; HYALINE CARTILAGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; PENIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERIOSTEUM; PREGNANCY; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PUBERTY; PUP (RODENT); RAT;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PENIS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

BACULUM; RATTUS;

EID: 79960119698     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.089508     Document Type: Article

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