Research resource: Small RNA-seq of human granulosa cells reveals miRNAs in FSHR and aromatase genes

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1128-1141

  Velthut Meikas, Agne ^a,b,c   Simm, Jaak ^b   Tuuri, Timo ^d   Tapanainen, Juha S ^d,e   Metsis, Madis ^a,f   Salumets, Andres ^a,c  

^a Competence Center on Reproductive Medicine and Biology ^*  (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; AROMATASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; HEPARAN SULFATE; LET 7A; LET 7F; LET 7G; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 142; MICRORNA 144; MICRORNA 146B; MICRORNA 191; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 22; MICRORNA 223; MICRORNA 26A; MICRORNA 27B; MICRORNA 30A; MICRORNA 3A; MICRORNA 451A; MICRORNA 486; MICRORNA 539; MICRORNA 548J; MICRORNA 584AP; MICRORNA 889; MICRORNA 99A; NEUROTROPHIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS GRANULOSA CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MURAL GRANULOSA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CUMULUS CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, FSH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879490996     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2013-1058     Document Type: Article

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