Impaired progesterone production in Nr5a2+/- mice leads to a reduction in female reproductive function

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-225

  Labelle Dumais, Cassandre ^a   Paré, Jean François ^c   Bélanger, Luc ^c   Farookhi, Riaz ^a,b   Dufort, Daniel ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum function; Estrogen; Fertility; Granulosa cells; Implantation; NR5A2; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

LIVER RECEPTOR HOMOLOG 1; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NR5A2 GENE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REPRODUCTION;

MUS;

EID: 34547475105     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.059121     Document Type: Article

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