Morphology of the external genitalia of the adult male and female mice as an endpoint of sex differentiation

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 354, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 94-102

  Weiss, Dana A ^a   Rodriguez, Esequiel ^a   Cunha, Tristan ^a   Menshenina, Julia ^a   Barcellos, Dale ^b   Chan, Lok Yun ^b   Risbridger, Gail ^c   Baskin, Laurence ^a   Cunha, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Monte Vista High School   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clitoris; External genitalia; Genital tubercle; Penis; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADULT ANIMAL; CLITORIS; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; FEMININITY; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; MASCULINITY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PENIS; PENIS GLANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CLITORIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PENIS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 84855384934     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.08.009     Document Type: Review

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