Stress levels of glucocorticoids inhibit LHβ-subunit gene expression in gonadotrope cells

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1716-1731

  Breen, Kellie M ^a   Thackray, Varykina G ^a   Hsu, Tracy ^a   Mak McCully, Rachel A ^a   Coss, Djurdjica ^a   Mellon, Pamela L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIMERIZATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GONADOTROPHS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MUS;

EID: 84867021491     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2011-1327     Document Type: Article

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