Aberrant cholesterol transport and impaired steroidogenesis in Leydig cells lacking estrogen sulfotransferase

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2487-2497

  Tong, M H ^a   Christenson, L K ^a   Song, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

17 ALPHA HYDROXYLASE 17,20 LYASE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHOLESTEROL; ESTROGEN SULFOTRANSFERASE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; ISOENZYME; PROGESTERONE; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL CULTURE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL PROTECTION; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, SCAVENGER; RNA, MESSENGER; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS B; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; SULFOTRANSFERASES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 2042449075     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1237     Document Type: Article

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