Repeated immobilization stress disturbed steroidogenic machinery and stimulated the expression of cAMP signaling elements and adrenergic receptors in Leydig cells

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 302, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Stojkov, Natasa J ^a   Janjic, Marija M ^a   Bjelic, Maja M ^a   Mihajlovic, Aleksandar I ^a   Kostic, Tatjana S ^a   Andric, Silvana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adenosine 3',5' cyclic monophosphate signaling; Adrenergic receptors; Hsd11b2; Steroidogenic machinery; Stress; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR KINASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); COREPRESSOR PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE 2; GLUCOCORTICOID; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE IV; PHOSPHODIESTERASE VII; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR B; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

3',5'-CYCLIC-AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASES; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CORTICOSTERONE; CYCLIC AMP; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS B; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84861127016     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00554.2011     Document Type: Article

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