Do mollusks use vertebrate sex steroids as reproductive hormones? Part I: Critical appraisal of the evidence for the presence, biosynthesis and uptake of steroids

Steroids

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1450-1468

  Scott, Alexander P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Invertebrate steroid; Mollusc; Receptor; Tissue concentrations; Vertebrate steroid

Indexed keywords

3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; ESTRADIOL; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

DEFECATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HORMONE RELEASE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SPECIES; STEROIDOGENESIS; URINARY EXCRETION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MOLLUSCA; REPRODUCTION; STEROIDS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84867215598     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: 18785867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2012.08.009     Document Type: Review

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