SRY directly regulates the neurotrophin 3 promoter during male sex determination and testis development in rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 277-284

  Clement, Tracy M ^a,b   Bhandari, Ramji K ^a   Sadler Riggleman, Ingrid ^a   Skinner, Michael K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ntf3; Rat; Sex determination; Sry; Testis development

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; NEUROTROPHIN 3; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL MIGRATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SEX DETERMINATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS;

RATTUS;

EID: 80052538265     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090282     Document Type: Article

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