Androstenedione increases cytochrome P450 aromatase messenger ribonucleic acid transcripts in nonluteinizing bovine granulosa cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-183

  Hamel, Mélanie ^a   Vanselow, Jens ^b   Nicola, Edmir S ^a   Price, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyp19 promoter; Estradiol; Follicle

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANDROGENS; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GRANULOSA CELLS; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BOVINAE;

EID: 11244325690     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20194     Document Type: Article

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