Direct Evidence of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH)-Stimulated Nitric Oxide Production in the LβT-2 Clonal Gonadotropes

Pituitary

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 191-196

  Chen, Lan ^a   Sakai, Takafumi ^a   Sakamoto, Shinya ^a   Kato, Masakatsu ^b   Inoue, Kinji ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Gonadotropes; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; L T 2 cell; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; GONADORELIN; IONOPHORE; MESSENGER RNA; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL CLONE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL LINE; CLONE CELLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IONOPHORES; KINETICS; MICE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PITUITARY GLAND; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033222248     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009988808338     Document Type: Article

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