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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-4-19
pubmed:abstractText
This report describes, for the first time to our knowledge, a possible steroidogenic activity in established murine embryonal carcinoma cell lines (PCC3, PCC4, F9), revealed by a 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity (revelation of NADH2 by staining, and RIA assessment of delta 4-androstenedione). The remarkable analogy between such totipotent cells and embryonal cells may suggest that this activity could be present before histologic organization of the embryonal testis. Nonmalignant embryonal cells such as fibroblasts (3/A/1/D-3) or myoblasts (T984) were also found to possess a 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity, thus suggesting that this enzyme is not specific to hormone-secreting cells, but the sign of a more general phenomenon.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0014-4827
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
175
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
223-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Evidence of 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in several murine embryonal carcinoma cell lines.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de physiologie et équipe associée au CNRS, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article