Adrenocorticotropin regulation of steroi
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Jean-Guy Lehoux; Axel Mathieu; Pierre Lavigne; Alain Fleury
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We studied the effect of the adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) on the expression of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) in vivo in rat and hamster adrenals and also in transfection experiments using COSโ1 cells. In vivo, ACTH increased the level of StAR mRNA within 30โ60