Luteinizing hormone-induced caspase activation in rat preovulatory follicles is coupled to mitochondrial steroidogenesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1717-1726

  Yacobi, Keren ^a   Tsafriri, Alex ^a   Gross, Atan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; ANTIOXIDANT; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPOSTANE; ETOPOSIDE; FORSKOLIN; GLUTATHIONE; KETOCONAZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MANGANESE TETRAKIS(4 BENZOIC ACID)PROPHYRIN CHLORIDE; PORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; CASPASES; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; KETOCONAZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEROIDS;

EID: 33947370441     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-1533     Document Type: Article

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