Androgenic regulation of androgen receptor immunoreactivity in motoneurons of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus of male rats

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 553-559

  Matsumoto, Akira ^a   Arai, Yasumasa ^a   Prins, Gail S ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Immunohistochemistry; Motoneuron; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

EID: 0030014901     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.1996.04899.x     Document Type: Article

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