Uterotrophic effects of relaxin related to age and estrogen receptor activation in neonatal pigs

Reproduction

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 943-950

  Yan, Wenbo ^a   Ryan, Peter L ^b   Bartol, Frank F ^c   Bagnell, Carol A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FULVESTRANT; RELAXIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWINE; UTERUS GROWTH; UTERUS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RELAXIN; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SWINE; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33744463658     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00762     Document Type: Article

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