Estrogen inhibits the vascular injury response in estrogen receptor α-deficient mice

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 545-548

  Iafrati, Mark D ^a   Karas, Richard H ^a   Aronovitz, Mark ^a   Kim, Sung ^a   Sullivan Jr , Theodore R ^a   Lubahn, Dennis B ^b   O'Donnell Jr , Thomas F ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^c   Mendelsohn, Michael E ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030914164     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0597-545     Document Type: Article

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