Steroid-dependent ACTH-produced thymic carcinoid: Regulation of POMC gene expression by cortisol via methylation of its promoter region

Hormone Research

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 257-262

  Mizoguchi, Yoko ^a,b   Kajiume, Teruyuki ^a   Miyagawa, Shin Ichiro ^a   Okada, Satoshi ^a   Nishi, Yoshikazu ^b   Kobayashi, Masao ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACTH; Cortisol; Gene expression; Proopiomelanocortin; Steroid

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STEROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEMETHYLATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; METHYLATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; TUMOR CELL; WHOLE BODY CT;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTIMETABOLITES; CARCINOID TUMOR; CHILD; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; METYRAPONE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 34147192051     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098548     Document Type: Article

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