Roles of estrogen receptor-α gene expression in reproduction-related behaviors in female mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5070-5081

  Ogawa, Sonoko ^a   Eng, Vincent ^a   Taylor, Julia ^b   Lubahn, Dennis B ^b   Korach, Kenneth S ^c   Pfaff, Donald W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (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 RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GONADECTOMY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LORDOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031724077     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.12.6357     Document Type: Article

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