National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΟΥ ΥΠΟΔΟΧΕΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΟΓΕΣΤΕΡΟΝΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΗ ΜΗΤΡΑ: ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΘΑΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΟΡΙΟΥ
Abstract
dc:descriptionHUMAN UTERUS IS A TARGET TISSUE OF PROGESTERONE AND THEREFORE IS SUITABLE FOR THE STUDY OF THIS RECEPTOR. HOWEVER THIS TISSUE IS ALSO VERY RICH IN PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES. PROTEASE INHIBITORY AND SODIUM MOLYBDATE ARE USED FOR THE CONTROL OF PROTEOLYSIS AND THE PROTECTION OF THE HOLORECEPTOR. PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR PROGESTERONE SPECIFICITY AS COMPARED TO OTHER STEROID HORMONES AND RELATIVE PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED. ANALYTICAL METHODS DEMONSTRATE THAT PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR SEEMS TO BE A TETRAMER(8-9S) WHICH IS DIVIDED INTO PARTS OF LOWER MOLECULAR WEIGHT, POSSIBLE DIMERS, MONOMERS OR MERORECEPTORS, BECAUSE OF PROTEOLYSIS OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MODIFICATION (TRANSFORMATION). THE NUCLEAR PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR HAS BEEN SHOWN TO HAVE THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS AS THE CYTOPLASTIC IN VIVO TRANSFORMED RECEPTOR. RECEPTOR PURIFICATION SHOWS PROTEINS OF DIFFERENT MOLECULAR WEIGHTS RANGE 120000 TO 30000.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Year dc:date
- 1987
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Λεβεντάκου, Αθηνά
Subjects
dc:subject × 12Rights
- Language dc:language
- gre
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 10.12681/eadd/0471
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:10442/0471