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A new role for wilms tumor protein 1: differential activities of + KTS and -KTS variants to regulate LHβ transcription.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Bagchi Debalina, Andrade Josefa, Shupnik Margaret A
Abstract excerpt
Luteinizing hormone (LH) is synthesized and secreted throughout the reproductive cycle from gonadotrope cells in the anterior pituitary, and is required for steroidogenesis and ovulation. LH contains an α-subunit common with FSH, and a unique LHβ subunit that defines biological activity. Basal LHβ transcription is low and stimulated by hypothalamic GnRH, which induces synthesis of early growth response protein-1...
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