Prenatal flutamide enhances survival in a myogenic mouse model of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 25-34

  Johansen, Jamie A ^a   Troxell Smith, Sandra M ^a   Yu, Zhigang ^c   Mo, Kaiguo ^b   Monks, D Ashley ^b   Lieberman, Andrew P ^c   Breedlove, S Marc ^a   Jordan, Cynthia L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Neuromuscular disease; Polyglutamine; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUTAMIDE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; KENNEDY DISEASE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEATH; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUP (RODENT); RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURVIVAL; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BULBO-SPINAL ATROPHY, X-LINKED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NAD; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 78650180086     PISSN: 16602854     EISSN: 16602862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313682     Document Type: Article

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