Functional and clinical consequences of mutations in the FSH receptor

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 177-182

  Gromoll, Jörg ^a   Simoni, Manuela ^a   Nordhoff, Verena ^a   Behre, Hermann M ^a   De Geyter, Christian ^a   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Follicle stimulating hormone receptor; Gene organization; Mutation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHROMOSOME 2P; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECEPTOR GENE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, FSH;

EID: 0030596101     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03949-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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