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Haploinsufficiency of steroidogenic factor-1 in mice disrupts adrenal development leading to an impaired stress response.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Dec 2000
Bland M L, Jamieson C A, Akana S F, Bornstein S R, Eisenhofer G, Dallman M F, Ingraham H A
Abstract excerpt
Adrenal steroids are essential for homeostasis and survival during severe physiological stress. Analysis of a patient heterozygous for the steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) gene suggested that reduced expression of this nuclear receptor leads to adrenal failure. We therefore examined SF-1 heterozygous (+/-) mice as a potential model for delineating mechanisms underlying this disease. Here we show that SF-1 +/- mice...
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