Ontogeny of estrogen receptor messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the postnatal rat uterus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1221-1230

  Fishman, Renata B ^a,c   Branham, William S ^a   Streck, Randal D ^a   Sheehan, Daniel M ^a,b  

^a Dept of Health and Human Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029957265     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.6.1221     Document Type: Article

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