In vivo imaging of transcriptionally active estrogen receptors

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 82-86

  Ciana, Paolo ^a   Raviscioni, Michele ^a   Mussi, Paola ^a   Vegeto, Elisabetta ^a   Que, Ivo ^b   Parker, Malcolm G ^c   Lowik, Clemens ^b   Maggi, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FULVESTRANT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037234105     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm809     Document Type: Article

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