Alternatively spliced transcripts of the aromatase cytochrome P450 (CYP19) gene in adipose tissue of women

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 70-74

  Agarwal, Veena R ^a   Ashanullah, Christy I ^a   Simpson, Evan R ^a   Bulun, Serdar E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AROMATASE; FEMALE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031036541     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.1.70     Document Type: Article

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