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Estrogen receptor-alpha gene deficiency enhances androgen biosynthesis in the mouse Leydig cell.
Endocrinology 2003 January
Leydig cells, which produce the primary male steroid hormone testosterone (T), express the two estrogen receptor (ER) subtypes, ERalpha and ERbeta, and have the capacity to convert testosterone to the natural estrogen 17beta-estradiol. Thus, Leydig cells are subject to estrogen action. The development of transgenic mice that are homozygous for targeted deletion of genes encoding the ER subtypes provides an opportunity to examine the role of estrogen in Leydig cell function. In this study androgen biosynthesis was analyzed in Leydig cells from mice that were homozygous for targeted deletion of the ERalpha gene (alphaERKO). T production by alphaERKO Leydig cells was 2-fold higher than that in wild-type (WT) cells. Serum T levels were accordingly higher in alphaERKO compared with WT mice (5.1 +/- 1.1 vs. 2.2 +/- 0.4 ng/ml; P
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