An influence of variation in the aldosterone synthase gene (CYP11B2) on corticosteroid responses to ACTH in normal human subjects

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 813-817

  Davies, Eleanor ^a   Holloway, Christine D ^a   Ingram, Mary C ^a   Friel, Elaine C ^a   Inglis, Gordon C ^a   Swan, Lorna ^a   Hillis, W Stewart ^a   Fraser, Robert ^a   Connell, John M C ^a  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTODOXONE; HYDROCORTISONE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TETRACOSACTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROXYLATION; INTRON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTODOXONE; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0035726085     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01264.x     Document Type: Article

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