The molecular basis of gonadotropin-releasing hormone action

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 3-10

  Conn, P Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DIACYLGLYCEROL; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; HYPOTHALAMUS RELEASING FACTOR; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PITUITARY HORMONE RELEASING HORMONES; PROTEIN KINASE C; QUIN2;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINOQUINOLINES; ANIMAL; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CELLS, CULTURED; DIGLYCERIDES; HUMAN; INOSITOL PHOSPHATES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PITUITARY HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONES; PROTEIN KINASE C; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, LHRH; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0022668418     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: 0163769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/edrv-7-1-3     Document Type: Article

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