Activin Signaling through Activin Receptor Type II Causes the Cachexia-Like Symptoms in Inhibin-Deficient Mice

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 534-543

  Coerver, Katherine A ^a   Woodruff, Teresa K ^b,c   Finegold, Milton J ^a   Mather, Jennie ^b   Bradley, Allan ^a,d   Matzuk, Martin M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; INHIBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; LIVER NECROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SEX CORD TUMOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH MUCOSA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CACHEXIA; FEMALE; INHIBINS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SEX CORD-GONADAL STROMAL TUMORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0029927783     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/mend.10.5.8732684     Document Type: Article

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