Effects of corticosterone deficiency and its replacement on Leydig cell steroidogenesis

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1671-1683

  Parthasarathy, C ^a   Balasubramanian, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Corticosterone deficiency; Leydig cell; mRNA expression; StAR; Steroidogeneisis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOSE; MESSENGER RNA; METYRAPONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE DEFICIENCY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; 3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CORTICOSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; METYRAPONE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 50249091504     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21733     Document Type: Article

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