Projects / Programmes
Role of steroidogenic factor 1 during fetal development
Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
4.04.01 |
Biotechnical sciences |
Veterinarian medicine |
Morphology, physiology and animal reproduction |
Code |
Science |
Field |
B005 |
Biomedical sciences |
Zoology |
B350 |
Biomedical sciences |
Development biology, growth (animal), ontogeny, embryology |
reproduction, endocrinology, development, testis, adrenal gland, pituitary, hypothalamus, steroidogenic factor-1, transgenesis
Researchers (1)
no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
13330 |
PhD Gregor Majdič |
Veterinarian medicine |
Head |
1999 - 2001 |
577 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1), isolated as a regulator of the cytochrome P450 steroid hydroxylases, was subsequently shown to play essential roles in endocrine development and function. SF-1 knockout mice lack adrenal glands and gonads, have impaired pituitary gonadotrope function, and lack the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH). Ongoing studies seek to expand our understanding of these pleiotropic roles of SF-1. The developing technology for tissue-specific knockouts will allow us to disrupt the gene encoding SF-1 specifically within the VMH, pituitary gonadotropes, Sertoli cells, or granulosa cells.