Differential effects of GnRH and androgens on Cres mRNA and protein in male mouse anterior pituitary gonadotropes

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 802-815

  Sutton Walsh, H G ^a,b   Whelly, Sandra ^a   Cornwall, Gail A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary gland; Cystatin; Gonadotrope; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; CYSTATIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; ITURELIX; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CYSTATINS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPHS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; OLIGOPEPTIDES; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 33751566538     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.106.000331     Document Type: Article

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