DD-RT-PCR identifies 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase as a key marker of early Leydig cell steroidogenesis

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 37-45

  Anbalagan, M ^a   Yashwanth, R ^b   Rao, A Jagannadha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

7 DHCR; Col IV 6; DD RT PCR; Leydig cell; mGST 1; RpL41

Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL REDUCTASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MICROSOME ENZYME; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P27; CYCLOSPORINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MESYLATES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 2442490787     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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