Expression of cytochrome P450 side-chain cleavage enzyme mRNA and production of pregnenolone in the brain of the red-bellied newt Cynops pyrrhogaster

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 468-474

  Takase, Minoru ^a   Haraguchi, Shogo ^b   Hasunuma, Itaru ^b   Kikuyama, Sakae ^b,c   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Cytochrome P450scc; Neurosteroids; Newt; Pregnenolone

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHOLESTEROL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; MESSENGER RNA; PREGNENOLONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 78651416458     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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