Transcriptome analysis of the dihydrotestosterone-exposed fetal rat gubernaculum identifies common androgen and insulin-like 3 targets

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Barthold, Julia S ^a   Wang, Yanping ^a   Robbins, Alan ^a   Pike, Jack ^a   McDowell, Erin ^a   Johnson, Kamin J ^a   McCahan, Suzanne M ^a  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens androgen receptor; Cryptorchidism; Gene expression; Gubernaculum; Hormone action; Male reproductive tract

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADARB1 GENE; ADH1C GENE; ARTICLE; CADPS GENE; CHRDL2 GENE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRLF1 GENE; CRYPTORCHISM; CXCL12 GENE; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DPT GENE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBIN GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GNA14 GENE; GREM2 GENE; GUBERNACULUM; KLF15 GENE; KLF9 GENE; MALE; MAOB GENE; MGLL GENE; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NT5ENE; NUPR1 GENE; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHISA3 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLIT3 GENE; SMOC1 GENE; SULT1A1 GENE; TESTIS; TESTIS DESCENT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TGFB2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VLDLR GENE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WNT4 GENE;

ANDROGENS/ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CRYPTORCHIDISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GUBERNACULUM; HORMONE ACTION; MALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSULIN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TESTIS;

EID: 84898468675     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.112953     Document Type: Article

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