Targeted disruption of the estrogen receptor gene in male mice causes alteration of spermatogenesis and infertility

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4796-4805

  Eddy, E M ^a,b   Washburn, Todd F ^a   Bunch, Donna O ^a   Goulding, Eugenia H ^a   Gladen, Beth C ^b   Lubahn, Dennis B ^c   Korach, Kenneth S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 0029969771     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.11.8895349     Document Type: Article

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