Age-related alterations in pituitary and testicular functions in long-lived growth hormone receptor gene-disrupted mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6019-6025

  Chandrashekar, Varadaraj ^a   Dawson, Christina R ^a   Martin, Eric R ^a   Rocha, Juliana S ^a   Bartke, Andrzej ^a   Kopchick, John J ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGE; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE DISRUPTION; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; TESTIS;

AGING; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 36348944090     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0837     Document Type: Article

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