Altering culture conditions reveals strain-related differences in activity and immunoreactive isoforms of 3β-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase-isomerase in mouse Leydig cells

Steroids

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 309-316

  Heggland, Sara J ^a   Stalvey, John R D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase isomerase; Leydig cell; Testis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CYCLIC AMP; ISOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENSITOMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; ISOENZYMES; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PROGESTERONE REDUCTASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEROID ISOMERASES;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0029891515     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0039-128X(95)00235-I     Document Type: Article

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