Steroid 21-hydroxylase mutations and 21-hydroxylase messenger ribonucleic acid expression in human adrenocortical tumors

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2585-2588

  Beuschlein, Felix ^a,b   Schulze, Egbert ^c   Mora, Patricia ^a   Gensheimer, Hans Peter ^c   Maser Gluth, Christiane ^c   Allolio, Bruno ^b   Reincke, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; ZONA FASCICULATA; ZONA GLOMERULOSA;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICAL CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MUTATION; PREVALENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0031728525     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.7.2585     Document Type: Review

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