New insights into melatonin/CRH signaling in hamster Leydig cells

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 153-163

  Rossi, Soledad P ^a   Matzkin, María E ^a,b   Terradas, Claudio ^b   Ponzio, Roberto ^b   Puigdomenech, Elisa ^b   Levalle, Oscar ^b   Calandra, Ricardo S ^a   Frungieri, Mónica B ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Androgens; CRH; Hamster; Leydig cells; MAP kinases; Melatonin; Transcription factors; Tyrosine phosphatases

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANEDIOL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MELATONIN; MELATONIN 1 RECEPTOR; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TESTIS BIOPSY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84861744100     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.04.031     Document Type: Article

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