Uterine Androgen Receptors: Roles in Estrogen-Mediated Gene Expression and DNA Synthesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1349-1357

  Kowalski, Andrés A ^a   Vale Cruz, Dustin S ^a   Simmen, Frank A ^b   Simmen, Rosalia C M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Embryo; Estradiol receptor; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CELL ANTIGEN; DNA; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; NANDROLONE; SOMATOMEDIN; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STROMA CELL; SWINE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DNA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NANDROLONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; STROMAL CELLS; SWINE; TESTOSTERONE; THYMIDINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 1942476848     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.024786     Document Type: Article

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