Differential expression and estrogen response of lactoferrin gene in the female reproductive tract of mouse, rat, and hamster

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1439-1449

  Teng, Christina T ^a   Beard, Clara ^a   Gladwell, Wesley ^a  

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

Author keywords

Estradiol; Female reproductive tract; Menstrual cycle; Uterus; Vagina

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DNA; ESTROGEN; LACTOFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VAGINA EPITHELIUM; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; OUTBRED STRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; RODENTIA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; CRICETINAE; CROSS REACTIONS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGENS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENITALIA, FEMALE; LACTOFERRIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFERRIN; UTERUS;

EID: 0036838290     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.101.002089     Document Type: Article

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