Estrogen receptor is expressed in pig embryos during preimplantation development

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 83-88

  Ying, Chingwen ^a   Hsu, Wei Lu ^a   Hong, Wei Fong ^a   Cheng, Winston T K ^b   Yang, Y C ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Embryonic gene expression; Estrogen; Implantation

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MORULA; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE;

EID: 0033992099     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(200001)55:1<83::AID-MRD11>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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