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Testosterone mediates expression of the selenoprotein PHGPx by induction of spermatogenesis and not by direct transcriptional gene activation
1 Oct 1998
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Selenium deficiency is known to be associated with male infertility, and the selenoprotein PHGPx has been shown to increase in rat testis after puberty and to depend on gonadotropin stimulation in hypophysectomized rats [Roveri et al. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 6142 6146]. Exposure of decapsulated whole testis, however, failed to reveal any transcriptional activation or inhibition of the PHGPx gene by...
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