The role of cytochrome P450 170α-hydroxylase and 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in the integration of gonadal and adrenal steroidogenesis via the Δ5 and Δ4 pathways of steroidogenesis in mammals

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 789-799

  Conley, A J ^a   Bird, I M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; GONAD; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; OVARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; TESTIS;

EID: 0030896764     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.4.789     Document Type: Review

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