Type 2 and 5 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases and androgen receptor in human fetal lungs

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 319, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 79-87

  Simard, Marc ^a   Plante, Julie ^a   Boucher, Mélanie ^a   Provost, Pierre R ^a,b   Tremblay, Yves ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Housekeeping gene stability; Lung maturation; Prematurity; Steroidogenesis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ADULT; ANDROGENS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG; MALE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77549087408     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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