Reproductively-relevant stimuli induce fos-immunoreactivity within progestin receptor-containing neurons in localized regions of female rat forebrain

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 831-838

  Auger, Anthony P ^a   Moffatt, Christopher A ^a   Blaustein, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; Mating stimuli; Progestin receptors; Vaginal cervical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LORDOSIS; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULATION; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VAGINA;

EID: 0029808633     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.1996.02684.x     Document Type: Article

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