Estrogen receptor knockout mice: What their phenotypes reveal about mechanisms of estrogen action

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 345-352

  Hewitt, S C ^a   Couse, J F ^a   Korach, K S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Estrogen receptor knockout; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FOLLITROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LIGAND; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CASTRATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MAMMAL; MAMMARY GLAND; MENOPAUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 0034468461     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr79     Document Type: Review

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