Tissue distribution and quantitative analysis of estrogen receptor-α (ERα) and estrogen receptor-β (ERβ) messenger ribonucleic acid in the wild-type and ERα-knockout mouse

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4613-4621

  Couse, John F ^a   Lindzey, Jonathan ^a   Grandien, Kaj ^b   Gustafsson, Jan Åke ^b   Korach, Kenneth S ^a  

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

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RNA ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERUS;

EID: 0030728930     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.11.5496     Document Type: Article

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