Gonadotropin receptors and the control of gonadal steroidogenesis: Physiology and pathology

Bailliere's Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-66

  Misrahi, M ^a   Beau, I ^a   Meduri, G ^a   Bouvattier, C ^a   Atger, M ^a   Loosfelt, H ^a   Ghinea, N ^a   Hai, M V ^a   Bougneres, P F ^a   Milgrom, E ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Constitutive; Follicle stimulating hormone; G protein; Gene; Genetics; Gonadotropin receptors; Leucine rich repeats; Luteinizing hormone; Mutation; Ontogeny; Pathology; Steroidogenesis; Transduction

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 2P; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXON; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; HYPOPLASIA; INTERNALIZATION; LEYDIG CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TARGET CELL; TESTIS CELL; TRANSCYTOSIS;

EID: 0031758986     PISSN: 0950351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-351X(98)80444-8     Document Type: Article

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