An investigation into pituitary gonadotrophic hormone synthesis, secretion, subunit gene expression and cell structure in normal and mutant male mice

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 863-875

  Abel, M H ^a   Charlton, H M ^a   Huhtaniemi, I ^b   Pakarinen, P ^b   Kumar, T R ^c   Christian, H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary; FSH; Gonadotrophs; LH; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINISING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINISING HORMONE ALPHA GENE; LUTEINISING HORMONE BETA GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTERIOR PITUITARY; FSH; GONADOTROPHS; LH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84883812256     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jne.12081     Document Type: Article

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