The human placenta expresses CYP17 and generates androgens de novo

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1385-1392

  Escobar, J C ^a   Patel, S S ^a   Beshay, V E ^a   Suzuki, T ^b   Carr, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CYTOCHROME P450 17; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANDROGENS; ANENCEPHALY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROXYCHOLESTEROLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; SULFATASES; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 79955658943     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-2504     Document Type: Article

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