Aryl hydrocarbon receptor splice variants in the dioxin-resistant rat: Tissue expression and transactivational activity

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 956-966

  Moffat, Ivy D ^a   Roblin, Steven ^a   Harper, Patricia A ^a,d   Okey, Allan B ^a   Pohjanvirta, Raimo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DIOXIN; DRUG METABOLIZING ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE LOCUS; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; WISTAR RAT; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 34748878229     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.107.037218     Document Type: Article

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