A transgenic mouse model for investigating the response of the upstream region of whey acidic protein (WAP) gene to various steroid hormones

Experimental Animals

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-7

  Inuzuka, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamanouchi, Keitaro ^a   Tachi, Chikashi ^b   Tojo, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadectomy; Human GH; Ovarian hormones; Transgenic mice; Whey acidic protein

Indexed keywords

MUS MUSCULUS;

ESTRADIOL; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MILK PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; WHEY ACIDIC PROTEINS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL LINE; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UDDER;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MILK PROTEINS; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0035230334     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.50.1     Document Type: Article

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