thesis
Anti-Müllerian hormone and androgens: regulation of receptors during sex differentiation and gonadal development
- Publication date
- 20 September 1995
- Publisher
- This chapter gives an outline of sex determination, sex differentiation, and gonadal
development in mammalian species. In most studies described herein, rats and mice
were used.
During embryonal development in mammals, sex differentiation is preceded by a
bipotential stage. Indifferent gonads are formed that can develop into eilher testes or
ovaries. The anlagen of the male and female intemal genitalia, which are both present
in embryos of either chromosomal sex, are called the wolffian and the mullerian ducts,
respectively.