Differential expression and functional characterization of luteinizing hormone receptor splice variants in human luteal cells: Implications for luteolysis

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2873-2881

  Dickinson, Rachel E ^a,b   Stewart, Alan J ^a   Myers, Michelle ^b   Millar, Robert P ^a   Duncan, W Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORPUS LUTEUM; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; COS CELLS; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEAL CELLS; LUTEOLYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, LH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 66649120509     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1382     Document Type: Article

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