Regulation of estrogen receptor beta mRNA in the brain: Opposite effects of 17β-estradiol and the phytoestrogen, coumestrol

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 165-171

  Patisaul, Heather B ^a   Whitten, Patricia L ^a   Young, Larry J ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; Endocrine disruptor; ER ; Paraventricular nucleus; Phytoestrogen

Indexed keywords

COUMESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; PHYTOESTROGEN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COUMESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOFLAVONES; OVARIECTOMY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHYTOESTROGENS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

ANIMALIA; TERMINALIS;

EID: 0033528650     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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