The emerging role of estrogen receptor-β in human reproduction

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-70

  Su, Emily J ^a   Xin, Hong ^a   Monsivais, Diana ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

estrogen receptor ; isoforms; pregnancy; reproduction

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD FLOW; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM; FETOPLACENTAL BLOOD FLOW; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HUMAN; LABOR; LUTEINIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; OOGENESIS; OVULATION; PARTURITION; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS;

EID: 84856290756     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1299598     Document Type: Article

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