Expression of estrogen receptor ESR1 and its 46-kDa variant in the gubernaculum testis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 703-712

  Staub, Christophe ^a   Rauch, Michel ^a   Ferrière, François ^a   Trépos, Mélanie ^a   Dorval Coiffec, Isabelle ^a   Saunders, Philippa T ^b   Cobellis, Gilda ^a,c   Flouriot, Gilles ^a   Saligaut, Christian ^a   Jégou, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Developmental biology; Estradiol receptor; Male reproductive tract

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESR1 GENE; ESR2 GENE; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARENCHYMA; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SCROTUM; TESTIS DESCENT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTIS;

EID: 25144518124     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.042796     Document Type: Article

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