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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2006

Premature ovarian failure in androgen receptor-deficient mice.

Hiroko Shiina
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Takahiro Matsumoto
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Takashi Sato
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Katsuhide Igarashi
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Junko Miyamoto
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Sayuri Takemasa
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Matomo Sakari
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Ichiro Takada
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Takashi Nakamura
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Jun Kanno
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Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
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Shigeaki Kato
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Résumé

Premature ovarian failure (POF) syndrome, an early decline of ovarian function in women, is frequently associated with X chromosome abnormalities ranging from various Xq deletions to complete loss of one of the X chromosomes. However, the genetic locus responsible for the POF remains unknown, and no candidate gene has been identified. Using the Cre/LoxP system, we have disrupted the mouse X chromosome androgen receptor (Ar) gene. Female AR(-/-) mice appeared normal but developed the POF phenotype with aberrant ovarian gene expression. Eight-week-old female AR(-/-) mice are fertile, but they have lower follicle numbers and impaired mammary development, and they produce only half of the normal number of pups per litter. Forty-week-old AR(-/-) mice are infertile because of complete loss of follicles. Genome-wide microarray analysis of mRNA from AR(-/-) ovaries revealed that a number of major regulators of folliculogenesis were under transcriptional control by AR. Our findings suggest that AR function is required for normal female reproduction, particularly folliculogenesis, and that AR is a potential therapeutic target in POF syndrome.

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hal-00188143 , version 1 (15-11-2007)

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Hiroko Shiina, Takahiro Matsumoto, Takashi Sato, Katsuhide Igarashi, Junko Miyamoto, et al.. Premature ovarian failure in androgen receptor-deficient mice.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006, 103 (1), pp.224-9. ⟨10.1073/pnas.0506736102⟩. ⟨hal-00188143⟩
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