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Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression
Over seventy years ago it was proposed that the fetal testis produces a hormone distinct from testosterone that is required for complete male sexual development. At the time the hormone had not yet been identified but was invoked by Alfred Jost to explain why the Müllerian duct, which develops into...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9201060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35721723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.905324 |
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description | Over seventy years ago it was proposed that the fetal testis produces a hormone distinct from testosterone that is required for complete male sexual development. At the time the hormone had not yet been identified but was invoked by Alfred Jost to explain why the Müllerian duct, which develops into the female reproductive tract, regresses in the male fetus. That hormone, anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), and its specific receptor, AMHR2, have now been extensively characterized and belong to the transforming growth factor-β families of protein ligands and receptors involved in growth and differentiation. Much is now known about the downstream events set in motion after AMH engages AMHR2 at the surface of specific Müllerian duct cells and initiates a cascade of molecular interactions that ultimately terminate in the nucleus as activated transcription factors. The signals generated by the AMH signaling pathway are then integrated with signals coming from other pathways and culminate in a complex gene regulatory program that redirects cellular functions and fates and leads to Müllerian duct regression. |
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spelling | pubmed-92010602022-06-17 Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression Cate, Richard L. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) Endocrinology Over seventy years ago it was proposed that the fetal testis produces a hormone distinct from testosterone that is required for complete male sexual development. At the time the hormone had not yet been identified but was invoked by Alfred Jost to explain why the Müllerian duct, which develops into the female reproductive tract, regresses in the male fetus. That hormone, anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), and its specific receptor, AMHR2, have now been extensively characterized and belong to the transforming growth factor-β families of protein ligands and receptors involved in growth and differentiation. Much is now known about the downstream events set in motion after AMH engages AMHR2 at the surface of specific Müllerian duct cells and initiates a cascade of molecular interactions that ultimately terminate in the nucleus as activated transcription factors. The signals generated by the AMH signaling pathway are then integrated with signals coming from other pathways and culminate in a complex gene regulatory program that redirects cellular functions and fates and leads to Müllerian duct regression. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9201060/ /pubmed/35721723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.905324 Text en Copyright © 2022 Cate https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Endocrinology Cate, Richard L. Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression |
title | Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression |
title_full | Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression |
title_fullStr | Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression |
title_full_unstemmed | Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression |
title_short | Anti-Müllerian Hormone Signal Transduction involved in Müllerian Duct Regression |
title_sort | anti-müllerian hormone signal transduction involved in müllerian duct regression |
topic | Endocrinology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9201060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35721723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.905324 |
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