Nonhuman primates as models for human adrenal androgen production: Function and dysfunction

Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 33-42

  Abbott, D H ^a,b   Bird, I M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

17,20 lyase; Adrenal; Adrenarche; CYB5; CYP17; DHEA; HSD3B2; Human; Marmoset; PCOS; Phosphorylation; Rhesus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYTOCHROME B5; CYTOCHROME P450 17; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STEROID 17,20 LYASE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENARCHE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPERANDROGENISM; MACACA; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIMATE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRIMATES;

EID: 62449284696     PISSN: 13899155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11154-008-9099-8     Document Type: Review

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