Corticosterone induces steroidogenic lesion in cultured adult rat leydig cells by reducing the expression of StAR protein and steroidogenic enzymes

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1472-1487

  Rengarajan, Srinivasan ^a   Balasubramanian, Karundevi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Leydig cell; Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein; Steroidogenic enzymes; Testosterone production

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE;

BOVINAE; RATTUS;

EID: 41749100134     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21533     Document Type: Article

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