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SUBMITTER: O'Hara L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422361 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Hara Laura L McInnes Kerry K Simitsidellis Ioannis I Morgan Stephanie S Atanassova Nina N Slowikowska-Hilczer Jolanta J Kula Krzysztof K Szarras-Czapnik Maria M Milne Laura L Mitchell Rod T RT Smith Lee B LB
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20141117 3
Leydig cell number and function decline as men age, and low testosterone is associated with all "Western" cardio-metabolic disorders. However, whether perturbed androgen action within the adult Leydig cell lineage predisposes individuals to this late-onset degeneration remains unknown. To address this, we generated a novel mouse model in which androgen receptor (AR) is ablated from ∼75% of adult Leydig stem cell/cell progenitors, from fetal life onward (Leydig cell AR knockout mice), permitting ...[more]