Mechanisms of FSH synthesis: what we know, what we don't, and why you should care

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2465-2485

  Bernard, Daniel J ^a   Fortin, Jérôme ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Lamba, Pankaj ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; SEX HORMONE; SMAD PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTIVINS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLISTATIN; GATA2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPHS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

EID: 77952108994     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.03.034     Document Type: Article

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