The microsomal enzyme 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 faces the cytoplasm and uses NADPH generated by

Balázs Legeza1, Zoltán Balázs, Lyubomir G Nashev

  • 1Division of Molecular and Systems Toxicology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.

Endocrinology
|November 28, 2012
PubMed

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