Lgr4 controls specialization of female gonads in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Koizumi, Masae ^a,b   Oyama, Kazunori ^a   Yamakami, Yukiko ^a   Kida, Tomoyo ^a   Satoh, Ryo ^a   Kato, Shigeki ^a   Hidema, Shizu ^a   Oe, Tomoyuki ^a   Goto, Takaaki ^a   Clevers, Hans ^c   Nawa, Akihiro ^b   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Female reproductive tract; Sex differentiation; Steroid hormones steroid hormone receptor; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AXIN2 GENE; AXIN2 PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; AXIN; AXIN2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LEF1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LGR4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RSPO1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SEX HORMONE; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LEFL GENE; LGR4 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RSPO1 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; VIRILIZATION; WILD TYPE; WNT4 GENE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SUPEROVULATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WOLFFIAN DUCT;

ANIMALS; AXIN PROTEIN; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SUPEROVULATION; THROMBOSPONDINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WOLFFIAN DUCTS;

EID: 84947261996     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.123638     Document Type: Article

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