Corticosterone has direct inhibitory effect on the expression of peptide hormone receptors, 11β-HSD and glucose oxidation in cultured adult rat Leydig cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 279, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 52-62

  Rengarajan, Srinivasan ^a   Balasubramanian, Karundevi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

11 HSD; Corticosterone; Glucose oxidation; Leydig cell; Peptide hormone receptors; Testosterone production

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOSE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INSULIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUCOSE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RATS; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 35648951059     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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