Activin A regulates porcine follicle-stimulating hormone β-subunit transcription via cooperative actions of SMADs and FOXL2

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5456-5467

  Lamba, Pankaj ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Tran, Stella ^a   Ouspenskaia, Tamara ^a   Libasci, Vanessa ^a   Hébert, Terence E ^a   Miller, Gregory J ^a   Bernard, Daniel J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; DNA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR L2; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIVIN; SMAD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SWINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHO CELL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRICETULUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETICS; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTIVINS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SMAD PROTEINS; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78049503704     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0605     Document Type: Article

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