CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBP)-α and -β are essential for ovulation, luteinization, and the expression of key target genes

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-268

  Fan, Heng Yu ^a   Liu, Zhilin ^a   Johnson, Peter F ^b   Richards, JoAnne S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN BETA; CELL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHIONINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROGESTERONE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEINIZATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-ALPHA; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-BETA; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOSA CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LUTEINIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; OVULATION;

EQUIDAE; MUS;

EID: 79951711601     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2010-0318     Document Type: Article

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