Apoptotic effects of a progesterone receptor antagonist on rat granulosa cells are not mediated via reduced protein isoprenylation

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1317-1326

  Friberg, P Anders ^a   Larsson, D G Joakim ^a   Rung, Emilia ^a   Billig, Håkan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atresia; Cholesterol synthesis; Ovary; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

11BETA [4 (DIMETHYLAMINO)PHENYL] 4',5' DIHYDRO 6BETA METHYLSPIRO[ESTRA 4,9 DIENE 17BETA,2'(3'H) FURAN] 3 ONE; ANTIGESTAGEN; BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; RAS RELATED PROTEIN RAB11; SIMVASTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; ESTRANE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; HORMONE ANTAGONIST; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANTILIPEMIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL; ESTRENES; FEMALE; FURANS; GRANULOSA CELLS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; PROTEIN ISOPRENYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SIMVASTATIN;

EID: 35848938480     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20711     Document Type: Article

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