Conservation of mechanisms mediating gonadotrophin-releasing hormone 1 stimulation of human luteinizing hormone β subunit transcription

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 77-87

  Fortin, Jérôme ^a   Lamba, Pankaj ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Bernard, Daniel J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

EGR1; Gonadotrophin; Pituitary; PITX; SF1

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 60149089402     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gan079     Document Type: Article

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