Glutamine and glutamic acid enhance thyroid-stimulating hormone β subunit mRNA expression in the rat pars tuberalis

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 212, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 383-394

  Aizawa, Sayaka ^a   Sakai, Takafumi ^a   Sakata, Ichiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE A2 RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CXCL16 CHEMOKINE; DECORIN; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; FODRIN; GALECTIN 3; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; HYALURONIDASE; KA2 KINATE RECEPTOR; KERATIN TYPE II; LIPOCORTIN 2; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; LYMPHOTOXIN BETA RECEPTOR; MELATONIN 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2C; PROTEIN P51; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR; SYNTAXIN 4; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR ALPHA; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT;

EID: 84857815866     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-11-0388     Document Type: Article

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