Cardiotonic steroids trigger non-classical testosterone signaling in Sertoli cells via the α4 isoform of the sodium pump

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1813, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2118-2124

  Konrad, Lutz ^a   Dietze, Raimund ^b   Kirch, Ulrike ^b   Kirch, Herbert ^b   Eva, Alexander ^b   Scheiner Bobis, Georgios ^b  

^a Zentrum f Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha4 isoform; Cardiotonic steroid; CREB; Erk1 2; Ouabain; Sertoli cell

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; OUABAIN; RAF PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE SRC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; OUABAIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SERTOLI CELLS; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS; STROPHANTHUS GRATUS;

EID: 82555164980     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: 18792596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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