Transgenic mice expressing LHX3 transcription factor isoforms in the pituitary: Effects on the gonadotrope axis and sex-specific reproductive disease

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-117

  Savage, Jesse J ^a,b   Mullen, Rachel D ^a   Sloop, Kyle W ^c   Colvin, Stephanie C ^a,b   Camper, Sally A ^d   Franklin, Craig L ^e   Rhodes, Simon J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN; IODINE 125; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34249880146     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21010     Document Type: Article

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