Mechanistic mammalian target of rapamycin (MTOR) cell signaling: Effects of select nutrients and secreted phosphoprotein 1 on development of mammalian conceptuses

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 354, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 22-33

  Bazer, Fuller W ^a,b   Song, Gwonhwa ^b   Kim, Jinyoung ^b   Erikson, David W ^c   Johnson, Greg A ^d   Burghardt, Robert C ^d   Gao, Haijun ^e   Carey Satterfield, M ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^a   Wu, Guoyao ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Conceptus; Endocrine disruptor; Glucose; MTOR; Pregnancy; Secreted phosphoprotein 1; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; INTERFERON; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; OSTEOPONTIN; POLYAMINE; PROGESTAMEDIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LATE ACTIVATION ANTIGEN 5; VITRONECTIN RECEPTOR;

ADENOGENESIS; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CATTLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MORTALITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPLANT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOCAL ADHESION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HISTOTROPH; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERFERON STIMULATED GENE; MAMMAL CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; ORGANOGENESIS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHECTODERM CELL; UTERUS DEVELOPMENT; UTERUS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OSTEOPONTIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; UTERUS;

EID: 84858285452     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.08.026     Document Type: Review

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