Adrenal 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in the mouse catabolizes progesterone and 11-deoxycorticosterone and is restricted to the X-zone

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 976-988

  Hershkovitz, Liat ^a   Beuschlein, Felix ^b,c   Klammer, Steffen ^b   Krup, Margalit ^a   Weinstein, Yacob ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; DEXAMETHASONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; GROWTH; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; SUCKLING;

20-ALPHA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; ZONA RETICULARIS;

EID: 33847076892     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-1100     Document Type: Article

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