The perinatal ontogeny of estrogen receptor-immunoreactivity in the developing male and female rat hypothalamus

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 300-303

  Pasterkamp, R Jeroen ^a   Yuri, Kazunari ^a   Visser, David T M ^a   Hayashi, Shinji ^b   Kawata, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Hypothalamus; Immunohistochemistry; Perinatal development; Rat; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030058176     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(95)00185-9     Document Type: Article

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