Differentiation-dependent progesterone synthesis and metabolism in NT2-N human neurons

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 302-311

  Pistritto, Giuseppa ^a   Papacleovoulou, Georgia ^b   Ragone, Gianluca ^c   Di Cesare, Silvia ^d   Papaleo, Veruska ^a   Mason, J Ian ^b   Barbaccia, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 hydroxy 5 pregnan 20 one (3 hydroxy 5 tetrahydroprogesterone 3 5 THP); 3 hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3 HSD); Neuronal differentiation; Neurosteroids; Ntera2 cl.D1, NT2 N; Progesterone; Retinoic acid

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 5ALPHA PREGNANE 3,20 DIONE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RETINOIC ACID; TRILOSTANE;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA STEM CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLITE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; TRETINOIN;

EID: 67349266611     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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