Melatonin influences on steroidogenic gene expression in the ovary of pinealectomized rats

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 291-298

  Maganhin, Carla C ^a   Simões, Ricardo S ^b   Fuchs, Luiz F P ^b   Sasso, Gisela R S ^a   Simões, Manuel J ^a   Baracat, Edmund C ^b   Soares, Jose M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene expression; melatonin; ovary; rat; steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450 17; CYTOCHROME P450 17A1; ESTROGEN; MELATONIN; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FUNCTION; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; UPREGULATION; VAGINA CYTOLOGY;

GENE EXPRESSION; MELATONIN; OVARY; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; MELATONIN; OVARY; PINEAL GLAND; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROID HYDROXYLASES;

EID: 84903381552     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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