A Transcriptome-Wide Screen for mRNAs Enriched in Fetal Leydig Cells: CRHR1 Agonism Stimulates Rat and Mouse Fetal Testis Steroidogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  McDowell, Erin N ^a   Kisielewski, Anne E ^a   Pike, Jack W ^a   Franco, Heather L ^b   Yao, Humphrey H C ^b   Johnson, Kamin J ^a  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISININ;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRHR1 GENE; CYP11A1 GENE; CYP17A1 GENE; FETUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAMD1B GENE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ITIH5 GENE; LEYDIG CELL; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCARB1 GENE; SERTOLI CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAR GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; VIRILIZATION; VSNL1 GENE;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; UROCORTINS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84868146597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047359     Document Type: Article

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