Evidence for tight coupling of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor to stimulated fas ligand expression in reproductive tract tumors: Possible mechanism for hormonal control of apoptotic cell death

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 427-431

  Imai, Atsushi ^a   Takagi, Atsushi ^a   Horibe, Shinji ^a   Takagi, Hiroshi ^a   Tamaya, Teruhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; FAS LIGAND; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; ITURELIX; LEUPRORELIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL DEATH; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIGAND BINDING; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; BUSERELIN; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031732851     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.2.427     Document Type: Article

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