Localization and estrogenic regulation of androgen receptor mRNA expression in the mouse uterus and vagina

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-85

  Pelletier, Georges ^a   Luu The, V ^a   Li, S ^a   Labrie, F ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STROMA CELL; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYOMETRIUM; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; STROMAL CELLS; TIME FACTORS; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 0842303575     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1800077     Document Type: Article

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