Involvement of ERK1/2 signaling pathway in atrazine action on FSH-stimulated LHR and CYP19A1 expression in rat granulosa cells

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Fa, Svetlana ^a   Pogrmic Majkic, Kristina ^a   Samardzija, Dragana ^a   Glisic, Branka ^a   Kaisarevic, Sonja ^a   Kovacevic, Radmila ^a   Andric, Nebojsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Atrazine; CYP19A1; ERK1 2; Granulosa cells; LHR

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; AMPHIREGULIN; AROMATASE; ATRAZINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; EPIREGULIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL CULTURE; OVULATION INHIBITION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; ATRAZINE; BUTADIENES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HERBICIDES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NITRILES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, LH;

RATTUS;

EID: 84877067242     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2013.03.031     Document Type: Article

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