Role and regulation of nodal/activin receptor-like kinase 7 signaling pathway in the control of ovarian follicular atresia

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2469-2482

  Wang, Hongmei ^a,b   Jiang, Jin Yi ^a   Zhu, Cheng ^b   Peng, Chun ^c   Tsang, Benjamin K ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 7; CYTOCHROME C; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN NODAL; SECOND MITOCHONDRIAL ACTIVATOR OF CASPASE; SERINE PROTEINASE OMI; SMAD2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X LINKED INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; NODAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33749317199     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: 08888809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2005-0446     Document Type: Article

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