Effect of triptolide on estradiol release from cultured rat granulosa cells

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 473-481

  Zhang, Juan ^a,b   Liu, Li ^c   Mu, Xianmin ^a   Jiang, Zhenzhou ^a   Zhang, Luyong ^a  

^a CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estradiol; Luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR); Rat granulosa cell; Triptolide

Indexed keywords

3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; AROMATASE; CHOLECYSTOKININ OCTAPEPTIDE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRIPTOLIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RELEASE; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DITERPENES; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PHENANTHRENES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, LH; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84863699759     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ11-0407     Document Type: Article

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