Anterior pituitary gene expression with reproductive aging in the female rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1091-1102

  Zheng, Weiming ^a   Jimenez Linan, Mercedes ^b   Rubin, Beverly S ^b   Halvorson, Lisa M ^a  

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

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Follistatin; Gene regulation; Pituitary; Steroid hormone receptors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLISTATIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; LIVER RECEPTOR HOMOLOG 1; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; STEROID; STEROID RECEPTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIECTOMY; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34249660014     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.057877     Document Type: Article

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