Lgr4 gene regulates corpus luteum maturation through modulation of the WNT-mediated EGFR-ERK signaling pathway

Endocrinology (United States)

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3624-3637

  Pan, Hongjie ^a,b   Cui, Hengxiang ^a   Liu, Shijie ^a   Qian, Yu ^a   Wu, Haili ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Guan, Yuting ^a   Guan, Xin ^a   Zhang, Long ^a   Fan, Heng Yu ^c   Ma, Yanlin ^d   Li, Runsheng ^b   Liu, Mingyao ^a,e   Li, Dali ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESEARCH   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GELATINASE B; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; PROGESTERONE; BETA CATENIN; EGFR PROTEIN, MOUSE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LGR4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DOWN REGULATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; LGR4 GENE; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEINIZATION; MARKER GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; STEROIDOGENESIS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZATION; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84907059495     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-2183     Document Type: Article

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