Gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonists suppress aromatase and anti-Müllerian hormone expression in human granulosa cells

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1832-1839

  Winkler, Nurit ^a   Bukulmez, Orhan ^b   Hardy, Daniel B ^c   Carr, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMH; aromatase; CYP 19 IIa; GnRH agonist; GnRH analogues; GnRH antagonist; MIS

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BUCLADESINE; CETRORELIX; ESTRADIOL; LEUPRORELIN; LIVER RECEPTOR HOMOLOG 1; MESSENGER RNA; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; CELL RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; GONADORELIN; NR5A2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DONATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ADULT; AGONISTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM;

ADULT; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; AROMATASE; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

EID: 77957190162     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.09.032     Document Type: Article

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