Localization and regulation of corticotropin receptor expression in the midgestation human fetal adrenal cortex: Implications for in utero homeostasis

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 340-345

  Mesiano, Sam ^a   Fujimoto, Victor Y ^a,b   Nelson, Linda R ^a   Lee, Janet Y ^a   Voytek, Cynthia C ^a   Jaffe, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ARTICLE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FETUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030065901     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.1.340     Document Type: Article

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