Progesterone receptors: Various forms and functions in reproductive tissues

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 2118-2130

  Gadkar Sable, Sushama ^a   Shah, Chirag ^a   Rosario, Gracy ^a   Sachdeva, Geetanjali ^a   Puri, Chander ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

PR knockout; Progesterone; Progesterone receptor; Reproduction; Review

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; MARKER; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MAMMARY GLAND; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SECRETION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 21344440060     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1685     Document Type: Review

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