Transient expression of the 5α-reductase type 2 isozyme in the rat brain in late fetal and early postnatal life

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2171-2178

  Poletti, Angelo ^a,b   Negri Cesi, Paola ^a   Rabuffetti, Monica ^a   Colciago, Alessandra ^a   Celotti, Fabio ^a   Martini, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Endocrinologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; ANTIANDROGEN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOTHALAMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0031594582     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.4.5866     Document Type: Article

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