Zebra finch estrogen receptor cDNA: Cloning and mRNA expression

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-145

  Jacobs, Erin C ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^a   Campagnoni, Anthony T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; OVIDUCT; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGING; TELENCEPHALON; TROUT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; BRAIN; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; OVIDUCTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROUT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030267697     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0760(96)00096-9     Document Type: Article

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