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This data, and the ability of the antiestrogen, hydroxytamoxifen, to reverse persistent induction of estrogen receptor mRNA, support a model in which transient doses of estradiol-17$\\beta$ induce the estrogen receptor and thereby establish an autoregulatory loop. The low levels of estradiol-17$\\beta$ normally circulating in male Xenopus laevis and the elevated level of receptor provide sufficient hormone-receptor complex to permanently maintain the induced level of expression of the estrogen receptor gene. The irreversible induction of the estrogen receptor may be the regulatory switch which results in the persistent expression of a recently identified class of proteins which exhibit long-term responses to estrogen.","abstract_html":"A single, transient dose of estradiol-17<span class=\"etd-inline-math\">&beta;</span> is sufficient to elicit the permanent induction of hepatic estrogen receptor mRNA, which is induced 18-fold, from 0.13 molecules/cell to 2.4 molecules/cell, and then remains fully induced for at least 125 days. In primary liver cultures, extremely low concentrations of estradiol-17<span class=\"etd-inline-math\">&beta;</span>, which are below the K$\\sb{\\rm d}$ of the Xenopus laevis estrogen receptor, maintain persistent induction of estrogen receptor mRNA, but not of estrogen-inducible vitellogenin mRNA. This data, and the ability of the antiestrogen, hydroxytamoxifen, to reverse persistent induction of estrogen receptor mRNA, support a model in which transient doses of estradiol-17<span class=\"etd-inline-math\">&beta;</span> induce the estrogen receptor and thereby establish an autoregulatory loop. The low levels of estradiol-17<span class=\"etd-inline-math\">&beta;</span> normally circulating in male Xenopus laevis and the elevated level of receptor provide sufficient hormone-receptor complex to permanently maintain the induced level of expression of the estrogen receptor gene. 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In primary liver cultures, extremely low concentrations of estradiol-17$\\beta$, which are below the K$\\sb{\\rm d}$ of the Xenopus laevis estrogen receptor, maintain persistent induction of estrogen receptor mRNA, but not of estrogen-inducible vitellogenin mRNA. This data, and the ability of the antiestrogen, hydroxytamoxifen, to reverse persistent induction of estrogen receptor mRNA, support a model in which transient doses of estradiol-17$\\beta$ induce the estrogen receptor and thereby establish an autoregulatory loop. The low levels of estradiol-17$\\beta$ normally circulating in male Xenopus laevis and the elevated level of receptor provide sufficient hormone-receptor complex to permanently maintain the induced level of expression of the estrogen receptor gene. 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