Leptin interferes with 3',5'-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate (cAMP) signaling to inhibit steroidogenesis in human granulosa cells

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lin, Qing ^a,b   Poon, Song L ^a   Chen, Junling ^a   Cheng, Linan ^c   HoYuen, Basil ^a   Leung, Peter C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PROGESTERONE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; 8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LEPTIN RECEPTOR, HUMAN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; STEROID; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OBESITY; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

8-BROMO CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS;

EID: 71149095090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-115     Document Type: Article

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