Expression of the androgen metabolizing enzyme UGT2B15 in adipose tissue and relative expression measurement using a competitive RT-PCR method

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 637-642

  Tchernof, André ^a   Lévesque, Éric ^a   Beaulieu, Martin ^a   Couture, Patrick ^a,b   Després, Jean Pierre ^b   Hum, Dean W ^a   Bélanger, Alain ^a,b  

^a Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology   (Canada)

^b Université Laval   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANDROGENS; BREAST; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSTATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS;

EID: 0032931896     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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