Effects of gonadal steroids on the ultrastructure of gnrh neurons in the rhesus monkey: Synaptic input and glial apposition

Endocrinology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 1083-1092

  Witkin, Joan W ^a   Ferin, Michel ^a   Popilskis, Sulli J ^a   Silverman, Ann Judith ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FEMALE; GONADORELIN; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0026003442     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-129-2-1083     Document Type: Article

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