Sex specific expression of progesterone receptor in mouse lower urinary tract

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 17-21

  Savolainen, Saija ^a   Santti, Risto ^a   Streng, Tomi ^a   Gustafsson, Jan Åke ^b   Härkönen, Pirkko ^a   Mäkelä, Sari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor null mice; Progesterone receptor; Urinary tract

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT; UROTHELIUM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEX FACTORS; URETHRA;

EID: 12344330629     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2004.11.008     Document Type: Article

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