Pituitary androgen receptor signalling regulates prolactin but not gonadotrophins in the male mouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  O'Hara, Laura ^a   Curley, Michael ^a   Ferreira, Maria Tedim ^a   Cruickshanks, Lyndsey ^a   Milne, Laura ^a   Smith, Lee B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CRE RECOMBINASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPHORIN A; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACTH SECRETING CELL; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANDROGEN RELEASE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN SECRETING CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINAL VESICLE; STEREOLOGY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TSH SECRETING CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84925873478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121657     Document Type: Article

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