Molecular plasticity of male and female murine gonadotropes revealed by mRNA sequencing

Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1082-1093

  Qiao, Sen ^a   Nordström, Karl ^b   Muijs, Leon ^a   Gasparoni, Gilles ^b   Tierling, Sascha ^b   Krause, Elmar ^a   Walter, Jörn ^b   Boehm, Ulrich ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIESTRUS; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; JUVENILE; LACTATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL PLASTICITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL PLASTICITY; DIESTRUS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GONADOTROPHS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LACTATION; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; PROESTRUS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84960532318     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1836     Document Type: Article

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