Postnatal overexpression of insulin-like growth factor II in transgenic mice is associated with adrenocortical hyperplasia and enhanced steroidogenesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1537-1543

  Weber, Matthias M ^a   Fottner, Christian ^a   Schmidt, Peter ^b   Brodowski, Kathrin M H ^b   Gittner, Katinka ^b   Lahm, Harald ^b   Engelhardt, Dieter ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ZONA FASCICULATA;

EID: 0032980691     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.4.6660     Document Type: Article

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