Impaired male sexual behavior in activin receptor type II knockout mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1182-1190

  Ma, Xiaoping ^a   Reyna, Andrea ^a   Mani, Shailaja K ^a   Matzuk, Martin M ^a   Kumar, T Rajendra ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Androgen receptor; Behavior; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hypothalamus; Male sexual behavior; Male sexual function; NOS; Steroids; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHEROMONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PENIS; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REFERENCE VALUES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 28144443727     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.043794     Document Type: Article

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