Studies of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) action using GnRH receptor-expressing pituitary cell lines

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-70

  Kaiser, Ursula B ^a,c   Conn, P Michael ^b,c   Chin, William W ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTIRELIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; STEROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, LHRH;

EID: 0031038565     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.18.1.46     Document Type: Article

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