Immunolocalization of estrogen receptor β in the mouse brain: Comparison with estrogen receptor α

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2055-2067

  Mitra, Sudha Warrier ^a   Hoskin, Elena ^c   Yudkovitz, Joel ^a   Pear, Lisset ^a   Wilkinson, Hilary A ^a   Hayashi, Shinji ^b   Pfaff, Donald W ^c   Ogawa, Sonoko ^c   Rohrer, Susan P ^a   Schaeffer, James M ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^c   Alves, Stephen E ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; STEROID RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; STRIA TERMINALIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN COS1; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INSECT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RABBIT; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; COS CELLS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; INSECTS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0038070602     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-221069     Document Type: Article

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