Porcine hypothalamic aromatase cytochrome P450: Isoform characterization, sex-dependent activity, regional expression, and regulation by enzyme inhibition in neonatal boars

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 388-395

  Corbin, C J ^a   Berger, T ^a   Ford, J J ^b   Roselli, C E ^c   Sienkiewicz, W ^d   Trainor, B C ^a   Roser, J F ^a   Vidal, J D ^a   Harada, N ^e   Conley, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^e FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Brain; Brain sexual differentiation; Hypothalamus; Isoform; Neuroendocrinology; Porcine; Regional expression; Regulation; Sexual dimorphism; Steroid hormones; Testis

Indexed keywords

1 HYDROXYTESTOSTERONE; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ETOMIDATE; LETROZOLE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SWINE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESTRADIOL; ETOMIDATE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GONADS; HYPOTHALAMUS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICROSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRILES; PITUITARY GLAND; PLACENTA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUS SCROFA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRIAZOLES;

SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 68049136112     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.076331     Document Type: Article

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