Insights into GABA receptor signalling in TM3 Leydig cells

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 381-390

  Doepner, Richard F G ^a   Geigerseder, Christof ^a   Frungieri, Monica B ^b   Gonzalez Calvar, Silvia I ^b   Calandra, Ricardo S ^b   Raemsch, Romi ^a   Föhr, Karl ^c   Kunz, Lars ^a   Mayerhofer, Artur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid; Aminobutyric acid receptors; Early growth response factor egr 1; Leydig cells; Mice; Testis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEYDIG CELL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL LINE; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CYCLIC AMP; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GABA AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISONICOTINIC ACIDS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUSCIMOL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, GABA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TESTIS;

EID: 28844480917     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089556     Document Type: Article

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