Regulation of prolactin receptor gene expression in the rat choroid plexus via transcriptional activation of multiple first exons during postnatal development and lactation

Experimental Animals

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-56

  Hirai, Junko ^a   Nishita, Masahiro ^a   Nakao, Nobuhiro ^a   Saito, Toru R ^a   Tanaka, Minoru ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choroid plexus; Prolactin; Prolactin receptor gene; Rat; Trans cription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; EXON; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LACTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR GENE; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHOROID PLEXUS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LACTATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84873815836     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.62.49     Document Type: Article

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