Estrogen and androgen repression of two female specific lacrimal lipocalins in hamster: Pituitary independent and sex hormone receptor mediated action

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 172-179

  Srikantan, Subramanya ^a   Paliwal, Anupam ^a   Quintanar Stephano, Andres ^b   De, Prabir K ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE AGUASCALIENTES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bicalutamide; Cyproterone acetate; Dry eye; Flutamide; Harderian gland; ICI 182780; Raloxifene; Syrian hamster; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BICALUTAMIDE; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUTAMIDE; FULVESTRANT; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LIPOCALIN; PROPIONITRILE; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; RALOXIFENE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONADECTOMY; HARDER GLAND; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOPHYSIS; LACRIMAL GLAND; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

EID: 33947127403     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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