Developmental expression of genes involved in neural estrogen biosynthesis and signaling in the brain of the orange-spotted grouper Epinephelus coioides during gonadal sex differentiation

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 127, Issue 3-5, 2011, Pages 155-166

  Nagarajan, Ganesan ^a   Tsai, Ya Ju ^a   Chen, Chia Yung ^a   Chang, Ching Fong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Brain development; cyp19a1b; Estradiol; Gonadal differentiation; Grouper brain; Neurosteroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CYCLINE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 30; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROSTEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EPINEPHELUS COIOIDES; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; DNA PRIMERS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS COIOIDES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 81255149350     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: 18791220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2011.03.021     Document Type: Article

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