Regulation of progesterone levels during pregnancy and parturition by signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 and 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 431-440

  Piekorz, Roland P ^a,c   Gingras, Sébastien ^a   Hoffmeyer, Angelika ^a   Ihle, James N ^a   Weinstein, Yacob ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; STAT PROTEIN; STAT5B PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

20-ALPHA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLOPROSTENOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; KIDNEY; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MIFEPRISTONE; MILK PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OVARY; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 13544273915     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2004-0302     Document Type: Article

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