Inactivating mutations of the human luteinizing hormone receptor in both sexes

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 382-386

  Latronico, Anaclaudia ^a   Arnhold, Ivoj P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

amenorrhea; infertility; Leydig cell hypoplasia; LH receptor

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROPENIS; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PHENOTYPE; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, LH;

EID: 84866973513     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1324721     Document Type: Article

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