Aromatase gene expression and regulation in the female rat pituitary

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1070, Issue , 2006, Pages 286-292

  Galmiche, Guillaume ^a   Corvaisier, Sophie ^b   Kottler, Marie Laure ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estrogen; Pituitary; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD; HYPOPHYSIS; METESTRUS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33746433485     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1317.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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