Expression of cytochrome P450scc mRNA and protein in the rat kidney from birth to adulthood

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-89

  Dalla Valle, Luisa ^a   Toffolo, Vania ^a   Vianello, Silvia ^a   Belvedere, Paola ^a   Colombo, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P450scc; Extraglandular steroidogenesis; Rat kidney

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; STEROID HORMONE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

ADRENAL CORTEX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD; HORMONE RELEASE; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNODETECTION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY DISTAL TUBULE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; KIDNEY; MALE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 1542299145     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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