Acute in vivo inhibition of testosterone by endotoxin parallels loss of steroidogenic acute regulatory (StAR) protein in Leydig cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4522-4525

  Bosmann, H Bruce ^a   Hales, Karen H ^a   Li, Xiangquan ^a   Liu, Zhiming ^b   Stocco, Douglas M ^b   Hales, Dale B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOTOXEMIA; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029759979     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.10.8828518     Document Type: Article

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