Changes in estrogen receptor expression and cell activity of lactotropes in female mink (Mustela vison) pituitary in response to variations in the gonadal steroid environment

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 365-377

  Vidal, Sergio ^a   Del Mar Yllera, María ^a   Román, Albina ^a   Moya, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MINK; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE;

EID: 0033065404     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7280     Document Type: Article

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