Effect of long-term treatment with steroid hormones or tamoxifen on the progesterone receptor and androgen receptor in the endometrium of ovariectomized cynomolgus macaques

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Wang, Hong ^a   Isaksson, Erika ^a   von Schoultz, Bo ^a   Cline, J Mark ^b   Sahlin, Lena ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; STEROID; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM CARE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; STROMA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 4344688052     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-7     Document Type: Article

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