Androgen receptor (AR) physiological roles in male and female reproductive systems: Lessons learned from AR-Knockout mice lacking AR in selective cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chang, Chawnshang ^a,b   Lee, Soo Ok ^a   Wang, Ruey Sheng ^a,c   Yeh, Shuyuan ^a   Chang, Ta Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Androgens; ARKO mice; Fertility; Male sexual function; Reproductive system; Sex differentiation; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; PLEIOTROPHIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYPTORCHISM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GERM CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZATION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; TESTIS DESCENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROGENS; ARKO MICE; FERTILITY; MALE SEXUAL FUNCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 84888998261     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.109132     Document Type: Review

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