Estrogen receptors are essential for female sexual receptivity

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 507-510

  Rissman, Emilie F ^a   Early, Anne H ^a   Taylor, Julia A ^b   Korach, Kenneth S ^c   Lubahn, Dennis B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (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

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; DATA ANALYSIS; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN RELEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031024192     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.1.4985     Document Type: Article

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