Dynamic expression of caspase-2, -3, -8, and -9 proteins and enzyme activity, but not messenger ribonucleic acid, in the monkey corpus luteum during the menstrual cycle

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2327-2335

  Peluffo, Marina C ^a,b   Young, Kelly A ^a,c   Stouffer, Richard L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROMEGESTONE; STEROID; TRILOSTANE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIFESPAN; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEOLYSIS; MACACA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CORPUS LUTEUM; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROMEGESTONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 17844398504     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2004-2214     Document Type: Article

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