Hormonal regulation, tissue distribution, and content of aromatase cytochrome p450 messenger ribonucleic acid and enzyme in rat ovarian follicles and corpora lutea: Relationship to estradiol biosynthesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 1426-1436

  Hickey, Gerard J ^a   Gaddy Kurten, Dana ^a   Richards, Joanne S ^a   Chen, Shiuan ^b   Besman, Marc J ^b   Shively, John E ^b   Hall, Peter F ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOCHROME P450; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; CORPUS LUTEUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMAL; AROMATASE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NADPH-FERRIHEMOPROTEIN REDUCTASE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSLATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0023949579     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-122-4-1426     Document Type: Article

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