The molecular basis of oxytocin and oxytocin receptor gene expression in reproductive tissues

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 449, Issue , 1998, Pages 297-306

  Ivell, Richard ^a   Bathgate, Ross A ^a   Walther, Norbert ^a   Kimura, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOSA CELL; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0031672595     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4871-3_37     Document Type: Review

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