Transforming growth factor-α gene expression in the hypothalamus is developmentally regulated and linked to sexual maturation

Neuron

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 657-670

  Jun Ma, Ying ^a,b   Junier, Marie Pierre ^a   Costa, Maria E ^a   Ojeda, Sergio R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID HORMONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONAD; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROGLIA; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; SEXUAL MATURATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); CATECHOLS; DRUG IMPLANTS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADORELIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX MATURATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

EID: 0026778806     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(92)90029-D     Document Type: Article

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