Presence of Sex Steroid-Metabolizing Enzymes in the Olfactory Mucosa of Rats

Anatomical Record

Volumn 300, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 402-414

  Horie, Sawa ^a,b   Yamaki, Akiko ^a   Takami, Shigeru ^a,c,d,e  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c SAKAI Electron Microscopy Application Laboratory   (Japan)

^d JOSAI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

estradiol; immunoelectron microscopy; immunoreactivity; smooth endoplasmic reticulum; sustentacular cell

Indexed keywords

17BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; 17BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; MESSENGER RNA; PREGNENOLONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 3 (OR 17)-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE;

ACINAR CELL; ADULT; ALBINO RAT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOWMAN GLAND; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; STEROID METABOLISM; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; RATS;

EID: 84996791566     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23497     Document Type: Article

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