The cortisol and androgen pathways cross talk in high temperature-induced masculinization: The 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase as a key enzyme

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6003-6011

  Fernandino, Juan Ignacio ^a   Hattori, Ricardo Shohei ^b   Kishii, Ai ^b   Strüssmann, Carlos Augusto ^b   Somoza, Gustavo Manuel ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR 1; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR 2; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR 2; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD; HATCHING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; STRESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870161804     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1517     Document Type: Article

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