Sessions I & II of Posters

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• Fetal but not adult Leydig cells are susceptible to adenoma formation in response to persistently high hCG level; a study on hCG overexpressing transgenic mice
  Ahtiainen P, Rulli SB, Shariatmadari R, Pelliniemi LJ, Toppari J, Poutanen M, and Huhtaniemi IT
  
  
• Role of intracellular loops 2 and 3 in the activation of the human lutropin receptor
  Krassimira Angelova, Francesca Fanelli and David Puett
  
  
• Protein knobs: a technique to study protein-protein interfaces and more.
  Michael P. Bernard, Yongna Xing, Win Lin, Donghui Cao, Rebecca V. Myers, and William R. Moyle
  
  
• Linkage analysis to identify gene/s responsible for the ectopic expression of the LHR in tumorigenic adrenal glands from DBA/2J mice
  Sophie BERNICHTEIN, Timothy J. AITMAN, Stacey JAMIESON and llpo HUHTANIEMI
  
  
• Significance of invasive trophoblast antigen (hyperglycosylated hCG) in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy.
  Stephen A. Butler, Bryn Kemp, Paola T.A. Borrelli, Kevin Harrington, Ray K. Iles
  
  
• Homology Modeling of Human Leucine-Rich Repeat-Containing G-Protein Coupled Receptor Class B and C Extracellular Sequence Motifs
  Geneva DeMars, Yongsheng Li, and David Puett
  
  
• Role of gene conversion in shaping SNP and allelic association patterns of tandem duplicated genes: LHB/CGB gene cluster
  Pille Hallast, Maris Laan
  
  
• Distal regulatory elements are required for Fshr expression, in vivo.
  Brian Hermann, Kaori Hornbaker, and Leslie Heckert
  
  
• Follistatin and FSTL3: Comparative actions in regulation of pituitary FSH secretion
  Henry T. Keutmann, Yisrael Sidis and Alan L. Schneyer
  
  
• Immunohistochemical evidence that hCG _ play an implicit role in the tumour invasion and angiogenesis
  Dong Li, Xue song Wen, Lucy R. Ghali and Ray K. Iles
  
  
• Mapping of the disulfide bonds and glycosylation sites of the LH receptor ectodomain
  Yongsheng Li, Ron Orlando and David Puett
  
  
• Homology modeling of the ectodomain of the LH receptor
  Yongsheng Li and David Puett
  
  
• A Comparison of Recombinant FSH to Combination Protocols using hMG in GnRH Agonists Down-Regulated IVF Cycles.
  MK Martin-Johnston, AN Beltsos, ML Uhler and HE Grotjan
  
  
• Screening for Trp 8 _Arg and Ile 15 _Thr mutations in LH β genes in the UK: the prevalence of this LH polymorphism has been overestimated.
  Mahmoud Naase, Sotiros Malatos, Mayada T S Younis, Xue Song Wen, Ovrang Djahanbakhch and Ray K Iles
  
  
• Knockout of luteinizing hormone receptor abolishes the effects of follicle-stimulating hormone on preovulatory maturation and ovulation of mouse Graafian follicles
  Tomi Pakarainen, Fu-Ping Zhang, Laura Nurmi, Matti Poutanen and Ilpo Huhtaniemi
  
  
• Exploring the role for β -catenin in transcriptional regulation of granulosa cell steroidogenesis
  Tehnaz N. Parakh, Jennifer A. Hernandez, Anthony J. Zeleznik, and John H. Nilson
  
  
• FSH receptor: mouse models for constitutively active forms
  Hellevi Peltoketo, Leena Strauss, Nina Messner, Pirjo Pakarinen, Matti Poutanen, and Ilpo Huhtaniemi
  
  
• Expression of β -subunit of hCG during the normal and failured pregnancy
  Kristiina Rull, Maris Laan
  
  
• Production of human choriogonadotropin (hCG) and other trophoblast markers in the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into trophoblast-like cells
  Margaret L. Shirley, Alison Venable, Raj Rao, Nolan L. Boyd, Steven Stice, Prema Narayan, and David Puett
  
  
• Alterations in gene expression of male transgenic mice expressing a yoked hCG-LHR construct
  Keriayn Smith, Frank Michel and Prema Narayan
  
  
• Alternative transcripts of the LH receptor in human ovarian cell lines
  Susanne W. Warrenfeltz, Marcelo Rocha da Costa, Krassimira Angelova, and David Puett
  
  
• Binding of hCG molecules to LH Receptors on cell surfaces.
  Yongna Xing, Win Lin, Donghui Cao, Rebecca V. Myers, Michael P. Bernard, and William R. Moyle