Thyroid, spermatogenesis, and male infertility

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 3 E, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 843-855

  Rajender, Singh ^a   Monica, Marie Gray ^b   Walter, Lee ^b   Agarwal, Ashok ^b  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperthyroidism; Hypothyroidism and male infertility; Male infertility; Review; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN BINDING PROTEIN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CARNITINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTIRELIN; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; SIALIC ACID; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 1; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; THIAMAZOLE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EJACULATION; EUTHYROIDISM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LEYDIG CELL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THYROID GLAND;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 80053591620     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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