Kiss of the mutant mouse: How genetically altered mice advanced our understanding of kisspeptin's role in reproductive physiology

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5119-5129

  Lemko, Heather M Dungan ^a   Elias, Carol F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; METASTIN;

FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; HYPOTHALAMUS; KISSPEPTINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84867769080     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1494     Document Type: Short Survey

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