Impaired testicular cytochrome P450 side-chain-cleavage (P450scc) and steroidogenic acute regulatory (StAR) protein expression in rats with nephrotic syndrome

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 209, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Menjívar, Marta ^a,d   Castillo, Nadya ^a   Vilchis, Felipe ^b   Medina Campos, Omar N ^a   Pedraza Chaverrí, José ^a   Ortiz López, María Guadalupe ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^c HOSPITAL JUÁREZ DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Quimica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aconitase; Nephrotic syndrome; P450scc; StAR

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FUMARATE HYDRATASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; MALE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEINURIA; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0242329750     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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