What have we learned about gonadotropin function from gonadotropin subunit and receptor knockout mice?

Reproduction

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 293-302

  Kumar, T Rajendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PLACENTAL PEPTIDE HORMONE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL LINEAGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GERM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 24944486224     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00660     Document Type: Review

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