Orphan nuclear receptor Nur77 regulates androgen receptor gene expression in mouse ovary

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Dai, Anyi ^a   Yan, Guijun ^a   He, Qinyuan ^a   Jiang, Yue ^a   Zhang, Qun ^a   Fang, Ting ^a   Ding, Lijun ^a   Sun, Jianxin ^b   Sun, Haixiang ^a   Hu, Yali ^a  

^a THE AFFILIATED DRUM TOWER HOSPITAL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (China)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; AR GENE; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; KITL GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 4, GROUP A, MEMBER 1; OVARY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER;

MUS;

EID: 84863007791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039950     Document Type: Article

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