Age and skin site related differences in steroid metabolism in male skin point to a key role of sebocytes in cutaneous hormone metabolism

Dermato-Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-64

  Haag, Markus ^a   Hamann, Tina ^a   Kulle, Alexandra E ^b   Riepe, Felix G ^b   Blatt, Thomas ^a   Wenck, Horst ^a   Holterhus, Paul Martin ^b   Peirano, Reto Ivo ^a  

^a BEIERSDORF AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; PRASTERONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; SKIN; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN FIBROBLAST; STEROID METABOLISM; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863678384     PISSN: 19381972     EISSN: 19381980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/derm.19201     Document Type: Article

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