Hair and skin sterols in normal mice and those with deficient dehydrosterol reductase (DHCR7), the enzyme associated with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 318-325

  Serra, Montserrat ^a   Matabosch, Xavier ^a   Ying, Lee ^a   Watson, Gordon ^a   Shackleton, Cedric ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholesterol biosynthesis; DHCR7 deficiency; Hair sterols; Smith Lemli Opitz syndrome (SLOS); Sterol GC MS

Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; 7 DEHYDROSTEROL REDUCTASE; CHOLEST 7,24 DIEN 3 BETA OL; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; DEHYDRODESMOSTEROL; DESMOSTEROL; LANOSTEROL; LATHOSTEROL; STEROL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR ANALYSIS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN EXAMINATION; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; DEHYDROCHOLESTEROLS; DESMOSTEROL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; LANOSTEROL; MICE; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; SKIN; SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME; STEROLS;

MUS;

EID: 77958494745     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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