Estrogen regulates the expression of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunit epsilon 4 (Grin2d), that is essential for the normal sexual behavior in female mice

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 806-810

  Ikeda, Kazuhiro ^a   Fukushima, Tatsuto ^b   Ogura, Hiroo ^b   Tsukui, Toru ^a   Mishina, Masayoshi ^c   Muramatsu, Masami ^a   Inoue, Satoshi ^a,c  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EISAI CO LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Estrogen receptor; Glutamate receptor; Hypothalamus; Lordosis

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2D;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIECTOMY; POSTURE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77649273873     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.12.054     Document Type: Article

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