Androstenedione interferes in luteal regression by inhibiting apoptosis and stimulating progesterone production

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1540-1547

  Goyeneche, Alicia A ^a   Calvo, Virginia ^a   Gibori, Geula ^a   Telleria, Carlos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Apoptosis; Corpus luteum; Corpus luteum function; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTENEDIONE; DNA FRAGMENT; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STAINING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036237541     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.5.1540     Document Type: Article

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