Transcriptional profiling of luteinizing hormone receptor-deficient mice before and after testosterone treatment provides insight into the hormonal control of postnatal testicular development and Leydig cell differentiation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1139-1150

  Griffin, D K ^a   Ellis, P J ^b   Dunmore, B ^b   Bauer, J ^b   Abel, M H ^c   Affara, N A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early development; Leydig cells; Luteinizing hormone; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, LH; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MUS;

EID: 77953814972     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.082099     Document Type: Article

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