Isolation of a goldfish brain cytochrome P450 aromatase cDNA: mRNA expression during the seasonal cycle and after steroid treatment

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 81-93

  Gelinas, Danielle ^a   Pitoc, George A ^a   Callard, Gloria V ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Goldfish; Neural aromatase expression; P450arom cDNA; Seasonal and steroid regulation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ISOLATION; GOLDFISH; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID METABOLISM; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GOLDFISH; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTIS;

EID: 0032536717     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00015-X     Document Type: Article

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