Pituitary follistatin regulates activin-mediated production of follicle- stimulating hormone during the rat estrous cycle

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2841-2848

  Besecke, Leslie M ^a,d   Guendner, Monika J ^a   Sluss, Patrick A ^b   Polak, Amanda G ^a   Woodruff, Teresa K ^a   Jameson, J Larry ^a   Bauer Dantoin, Angela C ^a   Weiss, Jeffrey ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

EID: 0030994251     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.7.5279     Document Type: Article

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