Insufficient androgen and FSH signaling may be responsible for the azoospermia of the infantile primate testes despite exposure to an adult-like hormonal milieu

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2515-2525

  Majumdar, Subeer S ^a   Sarda, Kanchan ^a   Bhattacharya, Indrashis ^a   Plant, Tony M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; FSH receptor; Infertility; Puberty; Sertoli cells

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CLAUDIN 11; CYCLIC AMP; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN B; MESSENGER RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAPLORHINI; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; JUVENILE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PUBERTY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84870044612     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des184     Document Type: Article

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