Neonatal thymulin gene therapy prevents ovarian dysgenesis and attenuates reproductive derangements in nude female mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3922-3928

  Reggiani, Paula C ^a,b   Barbeito, Claudio G ^c   Zuccolilli, Gustavo O ^c   Cónsole, Gloria M ^b   Flamini, Alicia M ^c   Dardenne, Mireille ^d   Goya, Rodolfo G ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOQUÍMICAS DE LA PLATA INIBIOLP   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; PROGESTERONE; THYMULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENITAL MALFORMATION; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARY DYSGENESIS; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PUBERTY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VAGINA; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; MICE; MICE, NUDE; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; THYMIC FACTOR, CIRCULATING;

EID: 84864386273     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1183     Document Type: Article

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