Retinoic acid stimulates 17β-estradiol and testosterone synthesis in rat hippocampal slice cultures

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4260-4269

  Munetsuna, Eiji ^a,c   Hojo, Yasushi ^b   Hattori, Minoru ^a   Ishii, Hirotaka ^b,d   Kawato, Suguru ^b   Ishida, Atsuhiko ^a   Kominami, Shiro A J ^a   Yamazaki, Takeshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALITRETINOIN; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOCHROME P450 17; CYTOCHROME P450 17 ALPHA; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROSTEROID; PREGNENOLONE; RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN; RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN TYPE 2; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTOSTERONE; TRETINOIN;

EID: 69249107419     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1644     Document Type: Article

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