Androgen metabolism in thymus of fetal and adult rats

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 675-679

  Borlak, Jürgen ^a   Schulte, Ingo ^a   Thum, Thomas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16ALPHA HYDROXYTESTOSTERONE; 17BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE ISOFORM 1; 17BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE ISOFORM 2; 17BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE ISOFORM 3; 2ALPHA HYDROXYTESTOSTERONE; 6BETA HYDROXYTESTOSTERONE; 7ALPHA HYDROXYTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 2A1; CYTOCHROME P450 2A2; CYTOCHROME P450 2B1; CYTOCHROME P450 2B2; CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME; CYTOCHROME P450 OXYGENASE; HORMONE; STEROID; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; TESTOSTERONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEROID METABOLISM; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; THYMUS; THYMUS FUNCTION; TISSUE METABOLISM; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICROSOMES; MICROSOMES, LIVER; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2442657882     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/dmd.32.6.675     Document Type: Article

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