Activin signaling through type IB activin receptor stimulates aromatase activity in the ovarian granulosa cell-like human granulosa (KGN) cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1603-1611

  Mukasa, Chizu ^a   Nomura, Masatoshi ^a,b   Tanaka, Tomoko ^b   Tanaka, Kimitaka ^a   Nishi, Yoshihiro ^a   Okabe, Taijiro ^a,b   Goto, Kiminobu ^a,b   Yanase, Toshihiko ^a,b   Nawata, Hajime ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD6 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ACTIVINS; AROMATASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, FSH; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037390424     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220978     Document Type: Article

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