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Luteinizing Hormone, beta Subunit

Known as: Luteinizing Hormone, beta Polypeptide Chain, LH-beta, Lutropin beta 
The beta subunit of luteinizing hormone. It is a 15-kDa glycopolypeptide with structure similar to the beta subunit of the placental chorionic… Expand
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Zebrafish Gonadotropins and Their Receptors: II. Cloning and Characterization of Zebrafish Follicle-Stimulating Hormone and Luteinizing Hormone Subunits—Their Spatial-Temporal Expression Patterns and…
Abstract Gonadotropins, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH) play critical roles in vertebrate… Expand
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Differential effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse frequency on gonadotropin subunit and GnRH receptor messenger ribonucleic acid levels in vitro.
The hypothalamic hormone, GnRH, is released and transported to the anterior pituitary in a pulsatile manner, where it binds to… Expand
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Luteinizing Hormone Deficiency and Female Infertility in Mice Lacking the Transcription Factor NGFI-A (Egr-1)
The immediate-early transcription factor NGFI-A (also called Egr-1, zif/268, or Krox-24) is thought to couple extracellular… Expand
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Steroid and pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) regulation of luteinizing hormone and GnRH receptor in a novel gonadotrope cell line.
Properties of a pituitary gonadotrope include the capacity to regulate gonadotropin synthesis and secretion in response to a GnRH… Expand
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
A Steroidogenic Factor-1 Binding Site Is Required for Activity of the Luteinizing Hormone Subunit Promoter in Gonadotropes of Transgenic Mice (*)
Analysis of luteinizing hormone (LH) β subunit promoters from a broad range of species including teleosts and humans revealed… Expand
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Targeted overexpression of luteinizing hormone in transgenic mice leads to infertility, polycystic ovaries, and ovarian tumors.
Hypersecretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) is implicated in infertility and miscarriages in women. A lack of animal models has… Expand
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
The frequency of gonadotropin-releasing-hormone stimulation differentially regulates gonadotropin subunit messenger ribonucleic acid expression.
The hypothalamic decapeptide GnRH is known to regulate the synthesis and secretion of LH and FSH by pituitary gonadotrope cells… Expand
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Inhibin, activin, and follistatin: regulation of follicle-stimulating hormone messenger ribonucleic acid levels.
Primary pituitary cell cultures derived from adult male rats were used to explore the direct effects of purified porcine inhibin… Expand
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Expression of biologically active human follitropin in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
To study the structure-function relationships of follitropin (FSH), we expressed the hormone in a heterologous cell system. A… Expand
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone differentially regulates expression of the genes for luteinizing hormone alpha and beta subunits in male rats.
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and gonadal steroids regulate synthesis and release of luteinizing hormone (LH). GnRH is… Expand
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