Steroidogenic properties of a spontaneously established porcine granulosa cell line (PGC-2)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 299-307

  Kwan, Ivy ^a   Farookhi, Riaz ^b   Huynh, Hung The ^a   Murphy, Bruce D ^c   Turner, Jeffrey D ^a   Downey, Bruce R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell line; Differentiation; Granulosa; Porcine; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CALCIUM ION; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOKERATIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROGESTERONE; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEROIDOGENESIS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CYCLIC AMP; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; PHENOTYPE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, FSH; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; EQUIDAE; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0029957280     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199611)45:3<299::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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