Upstream stimulatory factor induces Nr5a1 and Shbg gene expression during the onset of rat sertoli cell differentiation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 965-976

  Wood, Michelle A ^a,b   Mukherjee, Priya ^a   Toocheck, Corey A ^a   Walker, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Differentiation; Gene expression; Gene regulation; Male reproductive tract; Sertoli cell; Testis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR 1; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FSHR GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NR5A1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SERTOLI CELL; SHBG GENE; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, FSH; RNA INTERFERENCE; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 81055149771     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.093013     Document Type: Article

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