Conditional knockout of the androgen receptor in gonadotropes reveals crucial roles for androgen in gonadotropin synthesis and surge in female mice

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1670-1681

  Wu, Sheng ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Fajobi, Temi ^a   DiVall, Sara A ^a   Chang, Chawnshang ^b   Yeh, Shuyuan ^c   Wolfe, Andrew ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; MYELOPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE INACTIVATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; LITTER SIZE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; ANIMAL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPHS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARY; OVULATION; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84907662010     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: 19449917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2014-1154     Document Type: Article

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