Gonadal steroid hormone receptors and sex differences in the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 464-476

  Handa, Robert J ^a   Burgess, Loyd H ^a,b   Kerr, Janice E ^a   O’keefe, Joan A ^a,c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; STEROID RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028577497     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1994.1044     Document Type: Article

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