Nuclear progesterone receptors are up-regulated by estrogens in neurons and radial glial progenitors in the brain of zebrafish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Diotel, Nicolas ^a   Servili, Arianna ^a   Gueguen, Marie Madeleine ^a   Mironov, Svetlana ^a   Pellegrini, Elisabeth ^a   Vaillant, Colette ^a   Zhu, Yong ^b   Kah, Olivier ^a   Anglade, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GLIA; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR GENE; TARGET CELL; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; UP-REGULATION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 82355161917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028375     Document Type: Article

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