Modulation of androgen receptor (AR)-mediated transcriptional activity by EGF in the developing mouse reproductive tract primary cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 169-178

  Gupta, Chhanda ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Androgen receptor; EGF; Sexual differentiation; Steroid receptor

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FLUTAMIDE; LUCIFERASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033603326     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(99)00048-9     Document Type: Article

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