Use of alternative promoters to express the aromatase cytochrome P450 (CYP19) gene in breast adipose tissues of cancer-free and breast cancer patients

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3843-3849

  Agarwal, Veena R ^a   Bulun, Serdar E ^a   Leitch, Marilyn ^a   Rohrich, Rod ^a   Simpson, Evan R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AROMATASE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTROGENS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA; RNA, NEOPLASM;

EID: 0029820178     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.11.3843     Document Type: Article

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