Mouse Models for the Exploration of Klinefelter’s Syndrome

Animal Models for the Study of Human Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 759-784

  Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Werler, Steffi ^a   Lewejohann, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

B6Ei.Lt Y mice; cognition; hypergonadotropic hypogonadism; klinefelter syndrome; testosterone; X inactivation; Y chromosome; escapee genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901284038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415894-8.00031-2     Document Type: Chapter

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