The influence of sex steroid hormones on ferrochelatase gene expression in Harderian gland of hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-112

  Vilchis, F ^a   Ramos, L ^a   Timossi, C ^a   Chavez B ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME; ESTRADIOL; FERROCHELATASE; HEME; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CASTRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAMSTER; HARDER GLAND; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARIECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CASTRATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DNA, CIRCULAR; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERROCHELATASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HARDERIAN GLAND; LIVER; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33646365607     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06300     Document Type: Article

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