Male congenital hypothyroid Pax8-/- mice are infertile despite adequate treatment with thyroid hormone

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-109

  Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Mittag, Jens ^b   Luetjens, C Marc ^a   Cooper, Trevor G ^a   Yeung, Ching Hei ^a   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a   Bauer, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA SEQUENCE; EFFERENT NERVE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN WEIGHT; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUBERTY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; EPIDIDYMIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE;

EID: 33947381472     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-06-0054     Document Type: Article

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