Evidence against a role of human airway trypsin-like protease - The human analogue of the growth-promoting rat adrenal secretory protease - In adrenal tumourigenesis

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 143-153

  Hahner, Stefanie ^a   Fassnacht, Martin ^a   Hammer, Fabian ^a   Schammann, Markus ^a   Weismann, Dirk ^a   Hansen, Immo Alex ^a   Allolio, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL SECRETORY PROTEINASE; AIRWAY TRYPSIN LIKE PROTEINASE; ALDOSTERONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GAMMA INTERMEDIN; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGENIC AGENT; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADULT; AGED; ALDOSTERONE RELEASE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXON; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; INFANT; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TRACHEA;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 13244252559     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.01834     Document Type: Article

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