Activin and glucocorticoids synergistically activate follicle-stimulating hormone β-subunit gene expression in the immortalized LβT2 gonadotrope cell line

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 762-773

  McGillivray, Shauna M ^a   Thackray, Varykina G ^a   Coss, Djurdjica ^a   Mellon, Pamela L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DNA; DRUG SYNERGISM; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GONADOTROPHS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD3 PROTEIN;

EID: 33846426149     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0952     Document Type: Article

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