Aromatase, the enzyme responsible for estrogen biosynthesis, is expressed by human and rat glioblastomas

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-284

  Yague, Josue G ^a   Lavaque, Esteban ^a   Carretero, Jose ^b   Azcoitia, Iñigo ^c   Garcia Segura, Luis M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b Dept of Human Anatomy and Histology

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estradiol; Estrogen receptor; Glioma

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 4544242478     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.07.010     Document Type: Article

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