Genes Involved in Long-Term Memory Are Expressed in Testis of Cryptorchid Boys and Respond to GnRHa Treatment

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 9-15

  Hadziselimovic, Faruk ^a   Gegenschatz Schmid, Katharina ^a   Verkauskas, Gilvydas ^e   Demougin, Philippe ^b   Bilius, Vytautas ^e   Dasevicius, Darius ^e   Stadler, Michael B ^c,d  

^a Institute for Cryptorchidism Research   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^e VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; GnRHa; Long term memory; Mini puberty; RASGRF1; RNA sequencing; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 3; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTOME; GONADORELIN; LHRH, ALA(6)-GLY(10)-ETHYLAMIDE-;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTORCHISM; DRUG EFFECT; EVENING DOSAGE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LONG TERM MEMORY; LOW RISK PATIENT; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NERVE CELL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASGRF1 GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TESTIS;

EID: 85023749024     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000477522     Document Type: Article

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