Hypogonadal mouse, a model to study the effects of the endogenous lack of gonadotropins on apoptosis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-90

  Chausiaux, Oriane E ^a   Abel, Margaret H ^b   Baxter, Fiona O ^a   Khaled, Walid T ^a   Ellis, Peter J I ^a   Charlton, Harry M ^b   Affara, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Follicle stimulating hormone; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hpg; Leutenizing hormone; Sertoli cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

FODRIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GERM CELL; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HORMONAL REGULATION; INCIDENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTICULAR APOPTOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPINS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MICE; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 38149038730     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.060970     Document Type: Article

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