Title : The importance of being dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (in the blood of primates): a longer and healthier life?

Pub. Date : 1999 Feb 15

PMID : 9933021






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1 Molecular O2 is an obligatory substrate for the successive syntheses of 17alpha-OH pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) by cytochrome P450c17 in the zona reticularis of the adrenal cortex, in which it is suggested that arteriosclerosis --> decreased blood flow --> O2 and glucose deficit --> decreased O2-requiring synthesis of DHEA --> eventual decrease in number of DHEA-synthesizing cells. Glucose cytochrome P450 family 17 subfamily A member 1 Homo sapiens