Thyroid hormones in male reproductive development: Evidence for direct crosstalk between the androgen and thyroid hormone axes

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 192, Issue , 2013, Pages 2-14

  Flood, Diana E K ^a,b   Fernandino, Juan I ^c   Langlois, Valérie S ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Androgen; Hypothalamus pituitary thyroid gonadal axis; Promoter analysis; Sex determining genes; Steroidogenesis; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INTERACTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORYZIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SRY GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANDROGEN; HYPOTHALAMUS-PITUITARY-THYROID/GONADAL AXIS; PROMOTER ANALYSIS; SEX-DETERMINING-GENES; STEROIDOGENESIS; THYROID HORMONE;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; THYROID HORMONES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84884415479     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.02.038     Document Type: Review

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