Effects of LHRH, FSH and activin A on follistatin secretion from cultured rat anterior pituitary cells

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-327

  Liu, Zhong Hui ^a   Shintani, Yasumi ^a   Sakamoto, Yukihiro ^a   Harada, Kazuyo ^a   Zhang, Chen Yu ^a   Fujinaka, Yuichi ^a   Abe, Masahiro ^a   Goto, Tetsuya ^a   Saito, Shiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activin; Anterior pituitary cells; Follistatin; FSH; Immunoradiometric assay (IRMA); LHRH

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH PROMOTOR; INHIBIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MALE; RABBIT; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SECRETION; TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING; WISTAR RAT;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLISTATIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INHIBINS; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030155592     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.43.321     Document Type: Article

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