Regulation of mRNAs encoding the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein and cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme in the elasmobranch interrenal gland

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-132

  Evans, Andrew N ^a   Nunez, B Scott ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Lee College   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Cytochrome P450s; Elasmobranch; StAR; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PREGNENOLONE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID METABOLISM; DASYATIS SABINA; DNA SEQUENCE; ELASMOBRANCHII; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERRENAL GLAND; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; STEROIDOGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 77953713000     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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