Impact of a constitutively active luteinizing hormone receptor on testicular gene expression and postnatal Leydig cell development

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 298, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 33-41

  Coonce, Mary M ^a   Rabideau, Amanda C ^a   McGee, Stacey ^a   Smith, Keriayn ^b   Narayan, Prema ^a  

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

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive activation; Gene expression; Leydig cell development; Luteinizing hormone receptor

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 17; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 1; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS WEIGHT; UPREGULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TESTIS;

EID: 57749207468     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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