Variable expression of cellular retinol- and cellular retinoic acid- binding proteins in the rat uterus and ovary during the estrous cycle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-132

  Wardlaw, Sarah A ^a   Bucco, Richard A ^a   Zheng, Wen Li ^a   Ong, David E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RETINOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

EID: 0031021060     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.1.125     Document Type: Article

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