Dominant role of nuclear progesterone receptor in the control of rat periovulatory granulosa cell apoptosis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1160-1167

  Friberg, P Anders ^a   Larsson, D G Joakim ^a   Billig, Håkan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Granulosa cells; Mechanisms of hormone action; Progesterone; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

11BETA [4 (DIMETHYLAMINO)PHENYL] 4',5' DIHYDRO 6BETA METHYLSPIRO[ESTRA 4,9 DIENE 17BETA,2'(3'H) FURAN] 3 ONE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYANOKETONE; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROMEGESTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROTECTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORSE; IMMATURITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; APOPTOSIS; CYANOKETONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRENES; FEMALE; FURANS; GRANULOSA CELLS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EQUIDAE; RATTUS;

EID: 66149133205     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.073932     Document Type: Article

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