Hormonal control of ornithine decarboxylase and spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase activities by sex steroid hormones in the uterus of ovariectomized rats

Biogenic Amines

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-340

  Hibasami, H ^a   Fijikawa, T ^b   Sugiyama, T ^b   Yoshioka, K ^a   Nakanishi, K ^a   Ishii, Y ^a   Sugimoto, Y ^a   Nakashima, K ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Biochemistry ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydroxyprogesterone; Oestradiol; Ornithine decarboxylase; Ovariectomized rat; Spermidine spermine N1 acetyltransferase; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ESTRADIOL; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; SEX HORMONE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GROWTH; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; UTERUS; UTERUS WEIGHT;

EID: 0032988938     PISSN: 01688561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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