Gonadectomy permits adrenocortical tumorigenesis in mice transgenic for the mouse inhibin α-subunit promoter/Simian virus 40 T-antigen fusion gene: Evidence for negative autoregulation of the inhibin α-subunit gene

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1667-1677

  Kananen, Kirsi ^a   Markkula, Merja ^a   Mikola, Maarit ^a   Rainio, Eeva Marja ^a   McNeilly, Alan ^b   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b MRC Reproductive Biology Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; INHIBIN; PROGESTERONE; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL TUMOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADECTOMY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

ACTIVINS; ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; CASTRATION; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PEPTIDES; PROGESTERONE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0029958054     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.10.12.1667     Document Type: Article

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