Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 1177-1189 , August 2008

Age-dependent ERα MB1 splice variant expression in discrete areas of the human brain

  • Tatjana A. Ishunina

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Histology, Kursk State Medical University, Karl Marx Street 3, Kursk 305041, Russia
    • ,
  • Dick F. Swaab

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 20 5665500; fax: +31 20 6961006.

Received 29 August 2006 ,Revised 8 January 2007 ,Accepted 10 February 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.02.018

Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 1177-1189 , August 2008

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