Understanding the role of glucocorticoids in obesity: Tissue-specific alterations of corticosterone metabolism in obese Zucker rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 560-563

  Livingstone, D E W ^a   Jones, G C ^a   Smith, K ^a   Jamieson, P M ^a   Andrew, R ^a   Kenyon, C J ^a   Walker, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTISONE; DEHYDROCORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; KIDNEY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OBESITY; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034463972     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.141.2.7297     Document Type: Article

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