Seminiferous tubule function in delayed-onset X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita associated with incomplete hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-246

  Bergadá, Ignacio ^a   Andreone, Luz ^a   Bedecarrás, Patricia ^a   Ropelato, María Gabriela ^a   Copelli, Silvia ^d   Laissue, Paul ^b   Rey, Rodolfo A ^a,c   Campo, Stella ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d Universidad CAECE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMOSIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPLASIA; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PUBERTY; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TACHYCARDIA; TESTIS DISEASE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DAX-1 ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INHIBINS; MALE; MUTATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES;

EID: 38049177897     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.03026.x     Document Type: Article

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