Cell plating density alters the ratio of estrogenic to progestagenic enzyme gene expression in cultured granulosa cells

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2050-2055

  Portela, Valério M ^a   Zamberlam, Gustavo ^a   Price, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

aromatase; Cell number; culture; FACS; granulosa; serum free; steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEINIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STEROID RELEASE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GRANULOSA CELLS; LUTEINIZATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, FSH;

EID: 77949919020     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.01.151     Document Type: Article

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