Estrogen receptor β messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the forebrain of proestrous, pregnant, and lactating female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1869-1875

  Gréco, Béatrice ^a,b   Lubbers, Laura S ^a   Blaustein, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; BREEDING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PROESTRUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROESTRUS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037734072     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220807     Document Type: Article

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