Upregulation of estrogen receptors in the forebrain of aromatase knockout (ArKO) mice

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 9-16

  Agarwal, Veena R ^a   Sinton, Christopher M ^a   Liang, Chang Lin ^a   Fisher, Carolyn ^a   German, Dwight C ^a   Simpson, Evan R ^a  

^a Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase knockout mice; Brain; Estrogen receptor ; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CELL NUCLEUS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0034712991     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(00)00227-6     Document Type: Article

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