Progesterone enhances an estradiol-induced increase in Fos immunoreactivity in localized regions of female rat forebrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3 II, 1995, Pages 2272-2279

  Auger, Anthony P ^a   Blaustein, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; estradiol; hypothalamus; image analysis; immunocytochemistry; progesterone; proto oncogenes; steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ONCOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0028933274     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.15-03-02272.1995     Document Type: Article

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