Mitochondrial peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor expression. Correlation with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist-induced apoptosis in the corpus luteum

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1389-1393

  Papadopoulos, Vassilios ^a   Dharmarajan, Arun M ^b   Li, Hua ^a   Culty, Martine ^a   Lemay, Melanie ^c   Sridaran, Rajagopala ^d  

^a Division of Radiation Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c TREVIGEN INC   (United States)

^d MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Corpus luteum; GnRH; Peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR)

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN AGONIST; ION CHANNEL; LUTRELIN; N SEC BUTYL 1 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) N METHYL 3 ISOQUINOLINECARBOXAMIDE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL X;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA DEGRADATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 0032840716     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(99)00215-4     Document Type: Article

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