Advances in Molecular Genetics of Cryptorchidism

Urology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 571-578

  Kojima, Yoshiyuki ^a   Mizuno, Kentaro ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^a   Hayashi, Yutaro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10;

AD4BP GENE; ARTICLE; CRYPTORCHISM; DESRT GENE; GENE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GREAT GENE; HOXA11 GENE; HUMAN; INSL3 GENE; LGR8 GENE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; P450AROM GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SF 1 GENE; TESTIS DESCENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 69249208520     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.04.037     Document Type: Article

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