Murine inhibin α-subunit haploinsufficiency causes transient abnormalities in prepubertal testis development followed by adult testicular decline

Endocrinology

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2254-2268

  Itman, Catherine ^a   Bielanowicz, Amanda ^a   Goh, Hoey ^b   Lee, Queenie ^b   Fulcher, Alex J ^b   Moody, Sarah C ^b   Doery, James C G ^c   Martin, Jacinta ^a   Eyre, Sarah ^a   Hedger, Mark P ^d   Loveland, Kate L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN A; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MYELOPID; TESTOSTERONE; ACTIVIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN-ALPHA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GERM CELL; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTANT MOUSE STRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; INHIBINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PUBERTY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84930452158     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1555     Document Type: Article

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