Canonical WNT signaling inhibits follicle stimulating hormone mediated steroidogenesis in primary cultures of rat granulosa cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stapp, Andrea D ^a   Gómez, Belinda I ^a   Gifford, Craig A ^a   Hallford, Dennis M ^b   Hernandez Gifford, Jennifer A ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BETA CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN ALPHA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; STAR PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WNT3A PROTEIN;

EID: 84898431790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086432     Document Type: Article

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