Mamld1 deficiency significantly reduces mRNA expression levels of multiple genes expressed in mouse fetal leydig cells but permits normal genital and reproductive development

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6033-6040

  Miyado, Mami ^a   Nakamura, Michiko ^a   Miyado, Kenji ^a   Morohashi, Ken Ichirou ^b   Sano, Shinichiro ^c   Nagata, Eiko ^c   Fukami, Maki ^a   Ogata, Tsutomu ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 17A1; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP11A1 GENE; CYP17A1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HSD3B1 GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSL3 GENE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MASTERMIND LIKE DOMAIN CONTAINING 1 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STAR GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84870207981     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1324     Document Type: Article

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