Elevated luteinizing hormone induces expression of its receptor and promotes steroidogenesis in the adrenal cortex

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 633-641

  Kero, Jukka ^a   Poutanen, Matti ^a   Zhang, Fu Ping ^a   Rahman, Nafis ^a   McNicol, Anne Marie ^b   Nilson, John H ^c   Keri, Ruth A ^c   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034064198     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI7716     Document Type: Article

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