Deletion of androgen receptor in the smooth muscle of the seminal vesicles impairs secretory function and alters its responsiveness to exogenous testosterone and estradiol

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3374-3385

  Welsh, Michelle ^a   Moffat, Lindsey ^a   Jack, Laura ^a   McNeilly, Alan ^a   Brownstein, David ^a   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a   Sharpe, Richard M ^a   Smith, Lee B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL VESICLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STROMA CELL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; ESTRADIOL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL VESICLES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77954619231     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-1339     Document Type: Article

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