Estrogen receptor (ER) and its messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the genital tract of female mice exposed neonatally to tamoxifen and diethylstilbestrol

Anatomical Record

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 374-385

  Sato, Tomomi ^a   Ohta, Yasuhiko ^b   Okamura, Hiroaki ^c   Hayashi, Shinji ^c   Iguchi, Taisen ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

DES; Estrogen receptor; Estrogen receptor mRNA; Mouse; Tamoxifen; Uterus; Vagina

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BINDING; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 0030025628     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199603)244:3<374::AID-AR9>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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