Pituitary and testicular function in growth hormone receptor gene knockout mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1082-1088

  Chandrashekar, Vakadaraj ^a   Bartke, Andrzej ^a   Coschigano, Karen T ^b   Kopchick, John J ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032958139     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.3.6557     Document Type: Article

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