Insulin-like factor 3: A novel circulating hormone of testicular origin in humans

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 497-505

  Ferlin, Alberto ^a   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

GREAT; INSL3; Leydig; LGR8; Testis

Indexed keywords

INSULIN LIKE FACTOR 3; RELAXIN LIKE FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TESTIS DISEASE;

EID: 23644436186     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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