CNS oxytocin receptor mRNA expression and regulation by gonadal steroids

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 395, Issue , 1996, Pages 269-280

  Bale, T L ^a   Pedersen, C A ^b   Dorsa, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GONAD FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030010492     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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