Progesterone is a suppressor of apoptosis in bovine luteal cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2065-2071

  Okuda, Kiyoshi ^a   Korzekwa, Anna ^b   Shibaya, Masami ^a   Murakami, Shuko ^a   Nishimura, Ryo ^a   Tsubouchi, Miki ^a   Woclawek Potocka, Izabela ^b   Skarzynski, Dariusz J ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; bcl 2 gene family; Corpus luteum; Fas Fas ligand; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; DNA FRAGMENT; FAS ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; ONAPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; COW; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; GONANES; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; LUTEAL CELLS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 9744286975     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.028076     Document Type: Article

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