Species differences in prostatic steroid 5α-reductases of rat, dog, and human

Endocrinology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 571-579

  Liang, Tehming ^a   Cascieri, Margaret A ^a   Cheung, Anne H ^a   Reynolds, Glenn F ^b   Rasmusson, Gary H ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Departments of Biochemical Endocrinology and Chemistry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 OXO 4 AZASTEROID; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOG; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AZA COMPOUNDS; CYTOSOL; DOGS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MALE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROSTATE; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE CONGENERS;

EID: 0022390704     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-117-2-571     Document Type: Article

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