An autocrine progesterone positive feedback loop mediates oxytocin upregulation in bovine granulosa cells during luteinization

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 5059-5062

  Lioutas, Chrisostomos ^a   Einspanier, Almuth ^b   Kascheike, Bernd ^a   Walther, Norbert ^a   Ivell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGESTAGEN; DEXAMETHASONE; FORSKOLIN; INSULIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MIFEPRISTONE; ONAPRISTONE; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOSA CELL; LUTEINIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

EID: 0030780586     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.11.5650     Document Type: Article

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