Follistatin, induced by thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), plays no role in prolactin expression but affects gonadotropin FSHβ expression as a paracrine factor in pituitary somatolactotroph GH3 cells

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 156, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 65-71

  Oride, Aki ^a   Kanasaki, Haruhiko ^a   Purwana, Indri N ^a   Mutiara, Sandra ^a   Miyazaki, Kohji ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Follistatin; FSH ; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL STRAIN GH3; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONE ACTION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BUTADIENES; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPHS; HORMONES; MICE; NITRILES; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 67449158738     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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