Activin signal transduction in the fetal rat adrenal gland and in human H295R cells

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 137-148

  Wang, E Y ^b   Ma, E Y ^b   Woodruff, T K ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOCHROME P450 17; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN A; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX CELL; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; ACTIVINS; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0041669253     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1780137     Document Type: Article

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