Dexamethasone induces rapid actin assembly in human endometrial cells without affecting its synthesis

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 492-500

  Koukouritaki, Sevasti B ^a   Margioris, Andrew N ^a   Gravanis, Achille ^a   Hartig, Roland ^b   Stournaras, Christos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

actin assembly; actin transcript; confocal microscopy; dexamethasone; nongenomic effect; signal transduction; total actin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PHALLOIDIN; RHODAMINE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION;

ACTINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; POLYMERS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030988624     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(19970615)65:4<492::AID-JCB5>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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