Article
Thyroid hormone regulates the oxytocin gene.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 25 Feb 1992
Adan R A, Cox J J, van Kats J P, Burbach J P
Abstract excerpt
Endocrine factors involved in the transcriptional regulation of the oxytocin (OT) gene were investigated in heterologous expression systems. Plasmids having a 5'-flanking region of the rat OT gene (-363/+16) or the human OT gene (-382/+41) cloned in front of the firefly luciferase gene were co-tr...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Brain
- Cell Line
- Coleoptera
- Gene Expression Regulation
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Luciferases
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation