Estrogen receptor subtypes localization shifts in cultured mouse ovarian follicles

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 827-840

  Lenie, Sandy ^a   Smitz, Johan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Estrogen receptor; Follicle culture; Immunofluorescence; Subcellular translocation

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOPLASM; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; MICE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; THECA CELLS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 44149128180     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-008-0408-9     Document Type: Article

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