The brain of teleost fish, a source, and a target of sexual steroids

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Diotel, Nicolas ^a   Do Rego, Jean Luc ^b   Anglade, Isabelle ^a   Vaillant, Colette ^a   Pellegrini, Elisabeth ^a   Vaudry, Hubert ^b   Kah, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

3 HSD; Aromatase; Cyp11a1; CYP17; Neurosteroid; P450 scc; Radial glial cells; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

17 HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE; 3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3BETA ANDROSTANEDIOL; 5ALPHA PREGNANE 3,20 DIONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450 17; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTRONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; NEUROSTEROID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; TETRAHYDROPROGESTERONE;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS; TELEOST;

EID: 84862180554     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00137     Document Type: Review

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