Disruption of the single copy gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor in mice by gene trap: Severe reduction of reproductive organs and functions in developing and adult mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1142-1152

  Wu, Sheng ^a   Wilson, Michael D ^a   Busby, Ellen R ^a   Isaac, Emma R ^a   Sherwood, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXON; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; INTRON; MALE; MORULA; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; STOP CODON;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, LHRH; TESTIS;

EID: 77149159449     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0598     Document Type: Article

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