Developmental changes in the expression levels of alternative first exons of prolactin receptor gene in rat brain

Endocrine Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 143-151

  Kobayashi, Momoko ^a   Suzuki, Maiko ^b   Saito, Toru R ^a   Tanaka, Minoru ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mie Chukyo University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXON; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR GENE; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 40349098713     PISSN: 07435800     EISSN: 15324206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07435800701764022     Document Type: Article

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