Tissue compartment-specific estrogen receptor-α participation in the mouse uterine epithelial secretory response

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 484-491

  Buchanan, David L ^a   Setiawan, Tommy ^a   Lubahn, Dennis B ^c   Taylor, Julia A ^c   Kurita, Takeshi ^b   Cunha, Gerald R ^b   Cooke, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032894254     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.1.6448     Document Type: Article

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