Towards an understanding of the evolution of the chorioallantoic placenta: Steroid biosynthesis and steroid hormone signaling in the chorioallantoic membrane of an oviparous reptile

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Cruze, Lori ^a,b,c   Kohno, Satomi ^a,b,c   McCoy, Michael W ^a   Guillette, Louis J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Hollings Marine Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Alligator; Amniotes; Chorioallantoic membrane; Oviparous; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GESTAGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 84869455486     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.101360     Document Type: Article

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