The roles of testicular nuclear receptor 4 (TR4) in male fertility-priapism and sexual behavior defects in TR4 knockout mice

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Collins, Loretta L ^a   Lee, Yi Fen ^a   Ting, Huei Ju ^a   Lin, Wen Jye ^a   Liu, Ning Chun ^a   Meshul, Charles K ^b   Uno, Hideo ^c   Bao, Bo Ying ^a,d   Chen, Yen Ta ^a,e   Chang, Chawnshang ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d China Medical School   (China)

^e CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Priapism; Sexual behavior; Tr4

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYTOCIN; TESTICULAR NUCLEAR RECEPTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NOS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR2C2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEAR; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PENIS DISEASE; PENIS ERECTION; PRIAPISM; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRESS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REPORTER; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 2, GROUP C, MEMBER 2; PENIS; PRIAPISM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 80053900399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-138     Document Type: Article

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