Activins regulate 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type I transcription in murine gonadotrope cells

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-104

  Bak, Beata ^a   Carpio, Laura ^a   Kipp, Jinjing L ^b   Lamba, Pankaj ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Ge, Ren Shan ^c   Hardy, Matthew P ^c   Mayo, Kelly E ^a   Bernard, Danie J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN AB; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 1; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 4; MESSENGER RNA; MYELOPID; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 3 (OR 17) BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3 (OR 17)-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ACVR1B PROTEIN, MOUSE; ESTRADIOL; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; SMAD2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GONADOTROPHS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67651025148     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-08-0460     Document Type: Article

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