Potential biological functions emerging from the different estrogen receptors

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1092, Issue , 2006, Pages 361-373

  Carpenter, Karen D ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Estrogen receptor; Ovary; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; TAMOXIFEN;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BINDING; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVULATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERUS; WILD TYPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; UTERUS;

EID: 34247269612     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1365.033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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