Isoform/variant mRNAs for sex steroid hormone receptors in humans

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 124-129

  Hirata, Shuji ^a   Shoda, Tomoko ^a   Kato, Junzo ^b   Hoshi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; EXON; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW;

EID: 0037732485     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-2760(03)00028-6     Document Type: Review

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