Activation of the lutropin/choriogonadotropin receptor inhibits apoptosis of immature Leydig cells in primary culture

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3766-3773

  Tai, Ping ^a   Shiraishi, Koji ^a   Ascoli, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SOMATOMEDIN C; UO 126;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUTADIENES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHROMONES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MORPHOLINES; NITRILES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL AGENTS; SRC-FAMILY KINASES;

EID: 67651156043     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0207     Document Type: Article

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