Messenger RNA of steroid 21-hydroxylase (CYP21) is expressed in the human hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 111-114

  Beyenburg, Stefan ^a   Watzka, Matthias ^a   Clusmann, Hans ^a   Blümcke, Ingmar ^a   Bidlingmaier, Frank ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Stoffel Wagner, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

21 Hydroxylase; CYP21; Hippocampus; Human; Neuroactive steroids; Neurosteroids; P450c21

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTODOXONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS;

EID: 0035800619     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01991-7     Document Type: Article

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