The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein is expressed in steroidogenic cells of the day-old brain

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4775-4780

  King, Steven R ^a   Ginsberg, Stephen D ^b,c   Ishii, Tomohiro ^d   Smith, Roy G ^a   Parker, Keith L ^d   Lamb, Dolores J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); NEUROSTEROID; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4644308387     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1740     Document Type: Article

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