The regulation of adrenocorticotrophic hormone receptor by corticotropin-releasing hormone in human fetal adrenal definitive/transitional zone cells

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 578-587

  Rehman, Khurram S ^a   Sirianni, Rosa ^a   Parker Jr , C Richard ^b   Rainey, William E ^c   Carr, Bruce R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotrophic hormone receptor; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Human fetal adrenal; Melanocortin 2 receptor

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; IODINE 125; CORTICOTROPIN; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADRENAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ADRENAL CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; TIME; UPREGULATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 2; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 38449094877     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719107307908     Document Type: Article

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