SMAD3 dosage determines androgen responsiveness and sets the pace of postnatal testis development

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2076-2089

  Itman, Catherine ^a,b   Wong, Chin ^a,b   Hunyadi, Briony ^a   Ernst, Matthias ^c   Jans, David A ^a,b   Loveland, Kate L ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Government Australian Research Council   (Australia)

^c OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN;

ANDROGEN RESPONSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; HORMONE RESPONSE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELLS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955422716     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-1453     Document Type: Article

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