Antioxidants mimic the ability of chorionic gonadotropin to suppress apoptosis in the rabbit corpus luteum in vitro: A novel role for superoxide dismutase in regulating bax expression

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2555-2561

  Dharmarajan, A M ^a   Hisheh, S ^a   Singh, B ^a   Parkinson, S ^a   Tilly, Kim I ^b   Tilly, Jonathan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL X; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0033279404     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.6.6713     Document Type: Article

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