Lutropin/choriogonadotropin stimulate the proliferation of primary cultures of rat leydig cells through a pathway that involves activation of the extracellularly regulated kinase 1/2 cascade

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3214-3225

  Shiraishi, Koji ^a   Ascoli, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; ENZYME INHIBITOR; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; IODINE 125; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEM CELL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUTADIENES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; DIPEPTIDES; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FLAVONOIDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOSITOL PHOSPHATES; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NITRILES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRAZOLES; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS; TYRPHOSTINS;

EID: 34347252268     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0160     Document Type: Article

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