Evidence that gonadotropin-releasing hormone stimulates gene expression and levels of active nitric oxide synthase type I in pituitary gonadotrophs, a process altered by desensitization and, indirectly, by gonadal steroids

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2163-2170

  Garrel, Ghislaine ^a   Lerrant, Yannick ^a,b   Siriostis, Céline ^a   Bérault, Annette ^a   Magre, Solange ^a   Bouchaud, Claude ^a   Counis, Raymond ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Universite Francaise du Pacifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TEVERELIX; TRIPTORELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031765845     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.4.5890     Document Type: Article

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