Signal transducer and activation of transcription (STAT) 4β, a shorter isoform of interleukin-12-induced STAT4, is preferentially activated by estrogen

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1310-1320

  Karpuzoglu, Ebru ^a,b   Phillips, Rebecca A ^a   Dai, Rujuan ^a   Graniello, Carmine ^a   Gogal Jr , Robert M ^a   Ahmed, S Ansar ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; ESTROGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; ISOPROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOTROPH; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ESTROGENS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-12; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 62749133980     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0832     Document Type: Article

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