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Stromal cells of the human postmenopausal ovary display a distinctive biochemical and molecular phenotype.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Jan 2003
Jabara Sami, Christenson Lane K, Wang Clare Y, McAllister Jan M, Javitt Norman B, Dunaif Andrea, Strauss Jerome F
Abstract excerpt
The stroma of the human postmenopausal ovary is postulated to produce androgens, but evidence for and against this idea exits in the literature. The purpose of this study was to determine whether key steroidogenic enzymes involved in androgen synthesis are expressed in the postmenopausal ovarian stroma. Stromal cells were isolated from postmenopausal ovaries and expression for genes involved in steroidogenesis...
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