Cutaneous hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis homolog: Regulation by ultraviolet radiation

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 301, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Skobowiat, Cezary ^a,d   Dowdy, John C ^a   Sayre, Robert M ^b   Tuckey, Robert C ^c   Slominski, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Rapid Precision Testing Laboratories ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Cortisol; Glucocorticoid receptor; Proopiomelanocortin; Stress

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 11B1; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDERMIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; STRESS; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SKIN; STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 80052066801     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00217.2011     Document Type: Article

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