Ontogenetic expression and splicing of estrogen receptor-α and β mRNA in the rat midbrain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-24

  Raab, Heike ^a   Karolczak, Magdalena ^a   Reisert, Ingrid ^a   Beyer, Cordian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Dopamine; Estrogen receptor ; Midbrain; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Splicing

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0032863770     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00723-5     Document Type: Article

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