Congenital hypothyroid female Pax8-deficient mice are infertile despite thyroid hormone replacement therapy

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 719-725

  Mittag, Jens ^a   Winterhager, Elke ^b   Bauer, Karl ^a   Grümmer, Ruth ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; THYROXINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROSALPINX; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY; MOUSE; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARY; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PITUITARY HORMONES; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROXINE; UTERUS;

EID: 33846421673     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-1054     Document Type: Article

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