Table 2.

Quantification of mRNA expression levels of 17α-HSD and 17β-HSD5 in various mouse tissues using Realtime PCR

	17α-HSD (number of copies/μg RNA ± SEM)		17β-HSD5 (number of copies/μg RNA ± SEM)
	male	female	male	female
Pituitary gland	130 ± 92	692 ± 251	572 ± 992	2986 ± 2591
Adrenal	0 ± 0	12036 ± 356	53445 ± 11410	3714 ± 1960
Liver	2344 ± 6	332 ± 73	15369159 ± 2701597	14995082 ± 987906
Kidney	22226386 ± 1068282	17083578 ± 928740	45536 ± 9194	102586 ± 35774
Spleen	21610 ± 1369	7466 ± 438	22791 ± 4358	8777 ± 5673
Lung	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	6097 ± 2642
Thymus	2029 ± 40	3790 ± 134	407 ± 705	10943 ± 7200
Stomach	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	11858 ± 4062	8539 ± 4606
Colon	13860 ± 2184	6299 ± 1049	256686 ± 37628	17438 ± 21120
Heart	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	6821 ± 4402
Testis	6333 ± 490	-	0 ± 0	-
Prostate	0 ± 0	-	1095 ± 1896	-
Preputial gland	2681 ± 261	-	14551 ± 12605	-
Ovary	-	1980 ± 120	-	7208 ± 6397
Uterus	-	0 ± 0	-	8328 ± 3819
Clitoral gland	-	6516 ± 337	-	14419 ± 12591
Mammary gland	-	0 ± 0	-	5666 ± 3188