Leydig cell function in mice lacking connexin43

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 607-616

  Kahiri, Caroline N ^a,b   Khalil, M Wahid ^a   Tekpetey, Francis ^a   Kidder, Gerald M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; GENOTYPE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; WILD TYPE;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT DYES; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33750519879     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01234     Document Type: Article

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