Suppression of progesterone production by stresscopin/urocortin 3 in cultured human granulosa-lutein cells

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1748-1753

  Yata, Ai ^a   Nakabayashi, Koji ^a   Wakahashi, Senn ^a   Maruo, Nobuyuki ^a   Ohara, Noriyuki ^a   Maruo, Takeshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Granulosa cell; Ovary; Steroidogenesis; Stresscopin; Urocortin 3

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; UROCORTIN; UROCORTIN III; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CRF RECEPTOR TYPE 2; STEROID; UCN3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL CELL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OVARY; OVULATION;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; LUTEAL CELLS; OVARY; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDS; UROCORTINS;

EID: 69149093131     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dep063     Document Type: Article

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