Pituitary hormones are not required for sexual differentiation of male mice: Phenotype of the T/ebp/Nkx2.1 null mutant mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 4477-4482

  Pakarinen, Pirjo ^a   Kimura, Shioko ^b   El Gehani, Faraj ^a   Pelliniemi, Lauri J ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; THYROID SPECIFIC ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; INTERSTITIUM; KNOCKOUT GENE; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NKX2.1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TEBP GENE; TESTIS WEIGHT; THYROID GLAND; VIRILIZATION;

EID: 0036828229     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220052     Document Type: Article

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