Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and urocortin act through type 1 CRH receptors to stimulate dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate production in human fetal adrenal cells

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5393-5400

  Sirianni, Rosa ^a   Mayhew, Bobbie A ^a   Carr, Bruce R ^a   Parker Jr , C Richard ^b   Rainey, William E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 11A; CYTOCHROME P450 17; MESSENGER RNA; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROCORTIN;

ADRENAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SPLICING; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ENZYMES; FETUS; HUMANS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 24344480466     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-0680     Document Type: Article

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