Male 41, XXY* mice as a model for Klinefelter syndrome: Hyperactivation of Leydig cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2898-2910

  Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Luetjens, C Marc ^a,c   Stukenborg, Jan Bernd ^a,d   Poplinski, Andreas ^a   Werler, Steffi ^a   Dittmann, Matthias ^a   Damm, Oliver S ^a   Hämäläinen, Tuula ^b   Simoni, Manuela ^a,e   Gromoll, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c Covance Laboratories ^*  (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBEDDING; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPE 41,XXY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HYPERPLASIA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, LH; RNA, MESSENGER; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 77953941607     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-1396     Document Type: Article

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