LIM homeodomain transcription factor Isl-1 enhances follicle stimulating hormone-β and luteinizing hormone-β gene expression and mediates the activation of leptin on gonadotropin synthesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4787-4800

  Wu, Yingjie ^a   Luo, Haoshu ^a   Liu, Jiali ^a   Kang, Duo ^a   McNeilly, Alan S ^b   Cui, Sheng ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; JANUS KINASE; LEPTIN; LIM HOMEODOMAIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ISL 1; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSULIN GENE ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ISL-1; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPHS; GONADOTROPINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77957265789     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0208     Document Type: Article

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