Determination of aromatase cytochrome P450 messenger ribonucleic acid in human breast tissue by competitive polymerase chain reaction amplification

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1247-1252

  Price, Thomas ^a   Aitkenp, Jane ^a,b   Head, Judith ^a   Mahendroo, Mala ^a   Means, Gary ^a   Simpson, Evan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE; ESTROGEN;

ADIPOCYTE; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODENSITOMETRY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMAL; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026647326     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.74.6.1592866     Document Type: Article

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