Mechanisms in tissue-specific regulation of estrogen biosynthesis in humans

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 122-128

  Kamat, Amrita ^a   Hinshelwood, Margaret M ^a   Murry, Barbara A ^a   Mendelson, Carole R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; STEROID;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CYP19 GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; GENETICS; GONAD; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AROMATASE; BRAIN; ESTROGENS; GONADS; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0036546523     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-2760(02)00567-2     Document Type: Review

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