Nongenomic actions of steroid hormones in reproductive tissues

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-17

  Revelli, Alberto ^a   Massobrio, Marco ^a   Tesarik, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b LABORATOIRE D EYLAU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CYCLIC AMP; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; GENITAL SYSTEM; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON;

EID: 0032462138     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.19.1.3     Document Type: Review

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