Blockade of the estrogen induced increase in progesterone receptor caused by propylthiouracil, an anti-thyroid drug, in a transplantable pituitary tumor in rats

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 329-334

  Fujimoto, Nariaki ^a   Watanabe, Hiromitsu ^a   Ito, Akihiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Pituitary tumors; Progesterone receptor; Propylthiouracil; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANTIMETABOLITE; ANTITHYROID AGENT; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOSOL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CYTOSOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 0030155849     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.43.329     Document Type: Article

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