Article
Follistatin: a multifunctional regulatory protein.
Frontiers in neuroendocrinology - 1 Oct 1998
Phillips D J, de Kretser D M
Abstract excerpt
Follistatin was first described in 1987 as a follicle-stimulating hormone inhibiting substance present in ovarian follicular fluid. We now know that this effect of follistatin is only one of its many properties in a number of reproductive and nonreproductive systems. A majority of these functions...
Topics
- Activins
- Animals
- Female
- Follistatin
- Glycoproteins
- Humans
- Inhibins
- Multigene Family
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Tissue Distribution