Aromatase within the breast

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-164

  Yue, W ^a   Santen, R J ^a   Wang, J P ^a   Hamilton, C J ^b   Demers, L M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033006361     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/erc.0.0060157     Document Type: Article

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