Type IV collagen induces down-regulation of steroidogenic response to gonadotropins in adult rat leydig cells involving mitogen-activated protein kinase

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 208-215

  Diaz, Emilce S ^a,c   Pellizzari, Eliana ^b   Casanova, Marta ^a   Cigorraga, Selva B ^b   Denduchis, Berta ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Intracellular signals; Leydig cells; Rat; Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein; Testosterone production; Type IV collagen

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 4 ALPHA1 CHAIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4 ALPHA2 CHAIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GENISTEIN; GONADOTROPIN; INTEGRIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; CYCLIC AMP; DOWN-REGULATION; FLAVONOIDS; GENISTEIN; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, LH; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 23244457920     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20259     Document Type: Article

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