Cultured human dermal fibroblasts do produce cortisol [1]

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1177-1178

  Slominski, Andrzej ^a   Zbytek, Blazej ^a   Szczesniewski, Andrzej ^b   Wortsman, Jacobo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE;

CELL CULTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDERMIS CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELANOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SUPERNATANT;

1-METHYL-3-ISOBUTYLXANTHINE; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE; SKIN;

EID: 33646141864     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700204     Document Type: Letter

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