Androgens and mammalian male reproductive tract development

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1849, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 163-170

  Murashima, Aki ^a   Kishigami, Satoshi ^b   Thomson, Axel ^c   Yamada, Gen ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Epididymis; External genitalia; Growth factor; Knockout mouse; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL TUBERCLE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MASCULINITY; MESENCHYME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE MODEL; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETHRAL PLATE EPITHELIUM; UROGENITAL SINUS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VAS DEFERENS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WOLFIAN DUCT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 84921020326     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.05.020     Document Type: Review

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