Article
Activating Transcription Factor 3 Is Estrogen-Responsive in utero and Upregulated during Sexual Differentiation
1 Jan 2006
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Synthetic estrogens induce hypospadias, an anomaly of genital tubercle/urethral development. Activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3), which is estrogen-responsive in vitro, is upregulated in hypospadiac human tissue. We used a mouse model of steroid-dependent genital tubercle development to elucidate the ontogeny of ATF3 expression and the developmental response of ATF3 in vivo to estrogen...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
