Richard R. Behringer

ORCID: 0000-0001-7282-1543 · 3 papers in corpus
2022
Endocrinology ·doi:10.1210/endocr/bqac011

Female mice homozygous for an engineered Gnrhr E90K mutation have reduced gonadotropin-releasing hormone signaling, leading to infertility. Their ovaries have numerous antral follicles but no corpora lutea, indicating a block to ovulation. …

review 2014
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation ·doi:10.1159/000364935

The Müllerian duct (MD) forms the female reproductive tract (FRT) consisting of the oviducts, uterus, cervix, and upper vagina. FRT function is vital to fertility, providing the site of fertilization, embryo implantation and fetal developme…

article 2009
Molecular reproduction and development ·doi:10.1002/mrd.21010

Dicer encodes a riboendonuclease required for microRNA biosynthesis. Dicer was inactivated in Müllerian duct mesenchyme-derived tissues of the reproductive tract of the mouse, using an Amhr2-Cre allele. Although Amhr2-Cre; Dicer conditional…