Phorbol ester stimulates corticotropin-releasing hormone gene promoter activity through a cAMP regulatory element in primary placental cells

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-39

  Hou, Yue ^a   Tang, Xiaolu ^a   Nicholson, Richard C ^b   Ni, Xin ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consensus cAMP regulatory element; Corticotropin releasing hormone; CRE; CRH; Estrogen; Gene expression; Placenta

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN KINASE C; CARCINOGEN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CYTOLOGY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

5' FLANKING REGION; CARCINOGENS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN KINASE C; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 46149107539     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719107307926     Document Type: Article

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