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World Congress of Reproductive Biology 2014

Edinburgh, UK
02 Sep 2014 - 04 Sep 2014

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World Congress on Reproductive Biology 2014, 02 - 04 September 2014; Edinburgh, UK

PLENARY LECTURES

SSR Plenary Lecture

ra0001s030 | SSR Plenary Lecture | WCRB2014

Animal models, reproduction and ovarian cancer

Matzuk Martin M

The research in my laboratory is focused on defining the essential factors that regulate the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis in women and men. To investigate this axis, we have been using multiple in vitro and in vivo strategies. In particular, we have created over 60 knockout mouse models, have begun to study over a dozen conditional knockout mouse lines, and have produced several important recombinant growth factors and small molecules. In the...