Up-Regulation of SOX9 in Sertoli Cells from Testiculopathic Patients Accounts for Increasing Anti-Mullerian Hormone Expression via Impaired Androgen Receptor Signaling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lan, Kuo Chung ^a,b   Chen, Yen Ta ^a   Chang, Chawnshang ^c   Chang, Yung Chiao ^a   Lin, Hsin Jung ^a   Huang, Ko En ^a   Kang, Hong Yo ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

AMH GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SOX9 GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; AZOOSPERMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SERTOLI CELL-ONLY SYNDROME; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84885024793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076303     Document Type: Article

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