Structure and expression of the mouse oxytocin receptor gene

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 25-32

  Kubota, Yasue ^a   Kimura, Tadashi ^a   Hashimoto, Kazumasa ^a   Tokugawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Nobunaga, Katsutoshi ^a   Azuma, Chihiro ^a   Saji, Fumitaka ^a   Murata, Yuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene structure (mouse); Molecular cloning; Oxytocin receptor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TATA BOX; UTERUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UTERUS;

EID: 0030606091     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03923-8     Document Type: Article

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