[Androgen receptors in the epithelium during prostatic gland induction from the urogenital sinus epithelium in Tfm-mutant mice].

Epithelio-mesenchymal recombination experiments revealed that urogenital-sinus mesenchyme of normal rat fetuses failed to induce androgen-receptors in sinus epithelium of androgen insensitive Tfm (testicular ferminization) mouse fetuses. Nevertheless, the mesenchyme can induce the morphogenesis of prostate-like glands in the androgen-receptor-deficient epithelium.