Female-specific target sites for both oestrogen and androgen in the teleost brain

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 5014-5023

  Hiraki, Towako ^a   Takeuchi, Akio ^a   Tsumaki, Takayasu ^a   Zempo, Buntaro ^b   Kanda, Shinji ^b   Oka, Yoshitaka ^b   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^c,d   Okubo, Kataaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Brain; Oestrogen receptor; Sex differences; Sexual plasticity; Teleost

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SEX HORMONE; STEROID; TELEOST;

EID: 84869122649     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2011     Document Type: Article

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