Title : Leydig cells, thyroid hormones and steroidogenesis.

Pub. Date : 2005 Nov

PMID : 16313060






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1 Thyroid hormones cause proliferation of the cytoplasmic organelle peroxisome and stimulate the production of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) and StAR mRNA in Leydig cells; both peroxisomes and StAR are linked with the transport of cholesterol, the obligatory intermediate in steroid hormone biosynthesis, into mitochondria. Steroids steroidogenic acute regulatory protein Homo sapiens