Esterification of vertebrate-type steroids in the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)

Steroids

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-136

  Janer, Gemma ^a   Mesia Vela, Sonia ^b   Porte, Cinta ^a   Kauffman, Frederick C ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crassostrea virginica; Digestive gland; Esterification; Gonad; Steroid

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARACHIDONOYL COENZYME A; ESTER DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; FATTY ACID ESTER; LINOLEIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PALMITOLEIC ACID; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE; STEARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTERIFICATION; EXOCRINE GLAND; GONAD; INCUBATION TIME; KINETICS; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MICROSOME; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; VERTEBRATE;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ESTERIFICATION; ESTRADIOL; FATTY ACIDS; KINETICS; MICROSOMES; OSTREIDAE; STEROIDS; VERTEBRATES;

CRASSOSTREA; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; MAMMALIA; OSTREIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542375441     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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