Loss of GATA-6 and GATA-4 in granulosa cells blocks folliculogenesis, ovulation, and follicle stimulating hormone receptor expression leading to female infertility

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2474-2485

  Bennett, Jill ^a   Wu, Yan Guang ^a   Gossen, Jan ^b   Zhou, Ping ^a   Stocco, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b Amgen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GRANULOSA CELLS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH;

EID: 84860344195     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1969     Document Type: Article

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