A decrease in DKK1, a WNT inhibitor, contributes to placental lipid accumulation in an obesity-prone rat model

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Strakovsky, Rita S ^a   Pan, Yuan Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Metabolism; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CLUSTER OF DIFFERENTIATION 36; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; LIPID; MEDULLIPIN 1; MEDULLIPIN 3; MESSENGER RNA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN, RAT; DICKKOPF-1 PROTEIN, RAT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZED CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; LIPID TRANSPORT; MARE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SECTION; TROPHOBLAST; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TUMOR CELL LINE; UTERUS CANCER;

RATTUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIOCARCINOMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIPID METABOLISM; OBESITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84860613537     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.094482     Document Type: Article

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