Ontogeny of androgen receptor expression in spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus motoneurons and their target muscles in male mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 513, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-123

  Smith, Milo R ^a   Hamson, Dwayne K ^a,b   Poort, Jessica E ^a   Jordan, Cynthia L ^a   Breedlove, S Marc ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Bulbocavernosus; Motoneuron; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BULBOCAVERNOSUS MUSCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERINEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84862777567     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.01.067     Document Type: Article

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