The gad2 promoter is a transcriptional target of estrogen receptor (ER) α and ERβ: A unifying hypothesis to explain diverse effects of estradiol

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 8790-8797

  Hudgens, Edward D ^a   Ji, Lan ^a   Carpenter, Clifford D ^a,b   Petersen, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE 2; LUCIFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DOGS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GENE TARGETING; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HORSES; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; RATS; SALMON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67650471300     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1289-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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