In utero exposure to the anti-androgen flutamide influences connexin 43 and β-catenin expression in porcine fetal gonads

Domestic Animal Endocrinology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 185-194

  Knapczyk Stwora, K ^a   Grzesiak, M ^a   Slomczynska, M ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Catenin; Connexin 43; Fetal gonads; Flutamide; Pig

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIANDROGEN; BETA CATENIN; CONNEXIN 43; FLUTAMIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SWINE; TESTIS;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CONNEXIN 43; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SWINE; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84875886797     PISSN: 07397240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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