Aromatase in the human central nervous system

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 325-329

  Sasano, Hironobu ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Satoh, Fumitoshi ^a   Nagura, Hiroshi ^a   Harada, Nubuhiro ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AROMATASE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PONS; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031906239     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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