Both SMAD2 and SMAD3 mediate activin-stimulated expression of the follicle-stimulating hormone β subunit in mouse gonadotrope cells

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 606-623

  Bernard, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 1; DACTINOMYCIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; MYELOPID; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ACTIVINS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MURINAE;

EID: 1542267684     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2003-0264     Document Type: Article

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