The aromatase knockout mouse presents with a sexually dimorphic disruption to cholesterol homeostasis

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3895-3903

  Hewitt, Kylie N ^a,b   Boon, Wah Chin ^a   Murata, Yoko ^a   Jones, Margaret E E ^a   Simpson, Evan R ^a,b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACYL COENZYME A; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 7ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; ESTROGEN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; ISOENZYME; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ABCG5 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ABCG8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; SREBF2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; STEROL O ACYLTRANSFERASE 2; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE 2; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; CHOLESTEROL LIVER LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HOMEOSTASIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVOCATION TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; GENETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 7-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; LIPOPROTEINS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, LDL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0042421820     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0244     Document Type: Article

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