Estrogen dependent activation function of ERβ is essential for the sexual behavior of mouse females

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 19822-19827

  Antal, Maria Cristina ^a,b   Petit Demoulière, Benoît ^b   Meziane, Hamid ^b   Chambon, Pierre ^a   Krust, Andrée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INSTITUT CLINIQUE DE LA SOURIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DISEASE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

MUS;

EID: 84870359862     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217668109     Document Type: Article

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