Expression of aromatase P450AROM in the human fetal and early postnatal cerebral cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 1475, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-18

  Montelli, S ^a   Peruffo, A ^a   Zambenedetti, P ^b   Rossipal, E ^c   Giacomello, M ^d   Zatta, P ^d   Cozzi, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d VENETIAN INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEWBORN; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE;

AROMATASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865763225     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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