Aromatase immunoreactivity in axon terminals of the vertebrate brain

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-155

  Naftolin, Frederick ^a   Horvath, Tamas L ^a   Jakab, Robert L ^b   Leranth, Csaba ^a,b   Harada, Nobuhiro ^c   Balthazart, Jacques ^d  

^a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Electron microscopy; Human brain; Immunocytochemistry; Primate; Quail

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BRAIN ENZYME; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RAT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AXONS; BRAIN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COTURNIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0030030338     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126951     Document Type: Article

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