Wilms' tumor protein WT1 as an ovarian transcription factor: Decreases in expression during follicle development and repression of inhibin-α gene promoter

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1356-1366

  Hsu, Sheau Yu ^a   Kubo, Makoto ^a   Chun, Sang Young ^a   Haluska, Frank G ^b   Housman, David E ^b   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHO CELL; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBINS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 0029102967     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: 19449917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/mend.9.10.8544844     Document Type: Article

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