Ontogeny of estrogen receptor-β expression in rat testis

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 478-483

  Van Pelt, Ans M M ^a   De Rooij, Dirk G ^a   Van Der Burg, Bart ^b   Van Der Saag, Paul T ^b   Gustafsson, Jan Åke ^c   Kuiper, George G J M ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CELL;

EID: 0032941148     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.1.6438     Document Type: Article

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