Gonadotropin-releasing hormone-I or -II interacts with IGF-I/Akt but not connexin 43 in human granulosa cell apoptosis

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 525-534

  Hong, In Sun ^a   Klausen, C ^a   Cheung, Anthony P ^a   Leung, Peter C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIM PROTEIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE I; GONADOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE II; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WORTMANNIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; DOWN-REGULATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84856780445     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-1229     Document Type: Article

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