Impact of growth hormone resistance on female reproductive function: New insights from growth hormone receptor knockout mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1115-1124

  Zaczek, Denise ^a   Hammond, James ^a   Suen, Lii ^a   Wandji, Serge ^a   Service, Darlene ^a   Bartke, Andrzej ^a   Chandrashekar, Varadaraj ^a   Coschigano, Karen ^a   Kopchick, John ^a  

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

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Ovary; Ovulation; Pregnancy; Puberty

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; COITUS; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036786108     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod67.4.1115     Document Type: Article

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