The inhibitory effect of intracerebroventricularly injected interleukin 1β on testosterone secretion in the rat: Role of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 527-533

  Ogilvie, Kathleen M ^a,c   Hales, Karen Held ^b   Roberts, Maretha E ^b   Hales, Dale Buchanan ^b   Rivier, Catherine ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HYDROXYCHOLESTEROLS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INTERLEUKIN-1; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032895069     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.527     Document Type: Article

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