Expression of androgen and estrogen receptors in sertoli cells: Studies using the mouse SK11 cell line

Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 5304-5312

  Sneddon, Sharon F ^a   Walther, Norbert ^b   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c MRC Reproductive Biology Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; AROMATASE; CLUSTERIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; PROSAPOSIN; PROTEIN; SRY TYPE HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX TRANSCIPTION FACTOR 9; STEROID; TESTATIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; X CHROMOSOME;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 27844515099     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-0914     Document Type: Article

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