Effects of neuron-specific Estrogen Receptor (ER) α and ERβ deletion on the acute estrogen negative feedback mechanism in adult female mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1418-1427

  Cheong, Rachel Y ^a   Porteous, Robert ^a   Chambon, Pierre ^b   Ábrah́am, István ^a   Herbison, Allan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE IIALPHA; CRE RECOMBINASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GONADORELIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LOXP SITE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PROSENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84897871971     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1943     Document Type: Article

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