Androgen biosynthesis during minipuberty favors the backdoor pathway over the classic pathway: Insights into enzyme activities and steroid fluxes in healthy infants during the first year of life from the urinary steroid metabolome

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 165, Issue , 2017, Pages 312-322

  Dhayat, Nasser A ^a   Dick, Bernhard ^a   Frey, Brigitte M ^a   d'Uscio, Claudia H ^a   Vogt, Bruno ^a   Flück, Christa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Androgens; Development; GC MS; Minipuberty; Newborn infants; Steroid enzyme activity; Urinary steroid metabolome; Urinary steroid profile

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTERONE; CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE; LYASE; STEROID; STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLOME; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROID METABOLISM; STEROID URINE LEVEL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PUBERTY; URINE;

ANDROGENS; ANDROSTERONE; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METABOLOME; PUBERTY; SEX FACTORS; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; TESTIS;

EID: 84997796163     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: 18791220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2016.07.009     Document Type: Article

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