Transactivating function (AF) 2-mediated AF-1 activity of estrogen receptor α is crucial to maintain male reproductive tract function

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 51, 2012, Pages 21140-21145

  Arao, Yukitomo ^a   Hamilton, Katherine J ^a   Goulding, Eugenia H ^a   Janardhan, Kyathanahalli S ^a,b   Eddy, Edward M ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b INTEGRATED LABORATORY SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonist reversal; Domain function; Tubule dilation

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 9; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN 3; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; HOMOZYGOTE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FERTILITY; HOMOZYGOTE; LIGANDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRODUCTION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TAMOXIFEN; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

MUS;

EID: 84871393540     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216189110     Document Type: Article

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