Developmental expression of sex steroid- and thyroid hormone-related genes and their regulation by triiodothyronine in the gonad-mesonephros of a Neotropical frog, Physalaemus pustulosus

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 195-204

  Duarte Guterman, Paula ^a   Ryan, Michael J ^b   Trudeau, Vance L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

5 reductase; Androgen; Aromatase; Estrogen; Thyroid hormone; T ngara

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LIOTHYRONINE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANURA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MESONEPHROS; METAMORPHOSIS; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILURANA TROPICALIS; TADPOLE;

EID: 84860525825     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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