Androgen receptor-dependent activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in vascular endothelial cells: Role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1822-1828

  Yu, Jing ^a   Akishita, Masahiro ^b   Eto, Masato ^b   Ogawa, Sumito ^b   Son, Bo Kyung ^b   Kato, Shigeaki ^b   Ouchi, Yasuyoshi ^b   Okabe, Tetsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HYDRALLOSTANE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B BETA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLIDINES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 77950286070     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-1048     Document Type: Article

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