Influence of perinatal androgen on the sexually dimorphic distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive cells and fibers in the anteroventral periventricular nucleus of the rat

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 501-510

  Simerly, Richard B ^a   Swanson, Larry W ^b   Handa, Robert J ^a   Gorski, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Preoptic area; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CATECHOLAMINE; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; THALAMUS ANTEROVENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CASTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0021847860     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000124122     Document Type: Article

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