Expression of sex steroid hormone receptors in human cornea

Current Eye Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 28-33

  Suzuki, T ^a   Kinoshita, Y ^a   Tachibana, M ^a   Matsushima, Y ^a   Kobayashi, Y ^a   Adachi, W ^a   Sotozono, C ^a   Kinoshita, S ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cornea; Epithelial cells; Hormone receptors; Immunocytochemistry; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BETA ACTIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STROMA CELL;

AGED; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0034919383     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.22.1.28.6980     Document Type: Article

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