Cryptorchidism in mice with an androgen receptor ablation in gubernaculum testis

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 598-607

  Kaftanovskaya, Elena M ^a   Huang, Zaohua ^a   Barbara, Agustin M ^a   de Gendt, Karel ^b   Verhoeven, Guido ^b   Gorlov, Ivan P ^c   Agoulnik, Alexander I ^a,d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREMASTER MUSCLE; CRYPTORCHISM; EPIDIDYMIS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOXP SITE; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; ORGAN SIZE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM COUNT; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

MUS;

EID: 84859150210     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2011-1283     Document Type: Article

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