De novo testosterone production in luteinizing hormone receptor knockout mice after transplantation of Leydig stem cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4011-4015

  Lo, Kirk C ^a   Lei, Zhenmin ^b   Venkateswara Rao, Ch ^b,c,d   Beck, Josie ^a   Lamb, Dolores J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOE 33342; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CRYPTORCHISM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HYPOGONADISM; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CELL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, LH; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 4344618157     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1729     Document Type: Article

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