Relaxin research in the postgenomic era

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-7

  Kawamura, Kazuhiro ^a   Sudo, Satoko ^a   Kumagai, Jin ^a   Pisarska, Margareta ^a   Hsu, Sheau Yu Teddy ^a   Bathgate, Ross ^b   Wade, John ^b   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

INSL3; LGR7; LGR8; Oocyte maturation; Relaxin; Testicular spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 7; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 8; LIGAND; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROTEIN INSL3; RELAXIN; RELAXIN 3; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; CELL INTERACTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; LGR7 GENE; LGR8 GENE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TESTIS; THECA CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 23644444471     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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