Aromatization of Testosterone by Epithelial Tumor Cells Cultured from Patients with Ovarian Carcinoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 1988, Pages 6491-6497

  Thompson, Margaret A ^a   Adelson, Mark D ^a   Kaufman, Lydia M ^a   Marshall, Linda D ^a   Coble, Denis A ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; RADIOISOTOPE; TESTOSTERONE;

AROMATIZATION; CELL CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AROMATASE; CARCINOMA; DNA, NEOPLASM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; KINETICS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0023700123     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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