Androgens Regulate Gene Expression in Avian Skeletal Muscles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Fuxjager, Matthew J ^a   Barske, Julia ^a   Du, Sienmi ^a   Day, Lainy B ^b   Schlinger, Barney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOSTATIN; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GOLDEN COLLARED MANAKINS; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; UPREGULATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOSTATIN; PARVALBUMINS; PASSERIFORMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AVES; MANACUS VITELLINUS; MIONECTES; MIONECTES OLEAGINEUS; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TAENOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871292763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051482     Document Type: Article

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