Prolactin activates mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling and corticotropin releasing hormone transcription in rat hypothalamic neurons

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1841-1849

  Blume, Annegret ^a   Torner, Luz ^a,b   Liu, Ying ^c   Subburaju, Sivan ^c   Aguilera, Greti ^c   Neumann, Inga D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FORSKOLIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 63849098421     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1023     Document Type: Article

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