Insulin enhances leptin expression in human trophoblastic cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pérez Pérez, Antonio ^a   Maymó, Julieta ^b   Gambino, Yesica ^b   Guadix, Pilar ^a   Dueñas, José L ^a   Varone, Cecilia ^b   Sánchez Margalet, Víctor ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Hormone action; Leptin leptin receptor; Placenta; Signal transduction; Trophoblast cells

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LUCIFERASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLASMID VECTOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; WORTMANNIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN TREATMENT; LEPTIN GENE; LUCIFERASE GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; TROPHOBLAST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

HORMONE ACTION; LEPTIN/LEPTIN RECEPTOR; PLACENTA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST CELLS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84889076184     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.109348     Document Type: Article

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