Up-regulation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B pathway in the ovary of rats by chronic treatment with hCG and insulin

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 451-459

  Lima, Maria H M ^a,b   Souza, Lílian C ^a   Caperuto, Luciana C ^a   Bevilacqua, Estela ^a   Gasparetti, Alessandra L ^b   Zanuto, Ricardo ^a   Saad, Mario J A ^b   Carvalho, Carla R O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 2; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SERINE; THREONINE;

ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE CYST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERINSULINEMIA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LONG TERM CARE; MICROSCOPY; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT DURATION; UPREGULATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSULIN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33747878619     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06226     Document Type: Article

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