Cryptorchidism in mice mutant for Insl3

Nature Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-299

  Nef, Serge ^a   Parada, Luis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN DERIVATIVE; RELAXIN LIKE FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOTE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORMONES; INSULIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032989104     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/10364     Document Type: Article

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