Reversal of sex roles in genetic female mice by disruption of estrogen receptor gene

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 467-470

  Ogawa, Sonoko ^a   Taylor, Julia A ^b   Lubahn, Dennis B ^b   Korach, Kenneth S ^c   Pfaff, Donald W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Gonadal steroid receptors; Lordosis; Maternal behavior; Sexual behavior; Transgenes

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; LORDOSIS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030475567     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127154     Document Type: Article

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