Regulation of Estrogen Receptor Concentrations in the Rat Brain: Effects of Sustained Androgen and Estrogen Exposure

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-60

  Brown, Theodore J ^a   Scherz, Bernadette ^b   Hochberg, Richard B ^c   MacLusky, Neil J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoradiography; Gonadal steroids; Receptors

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; SILASTIC;

ADRENALECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; UTERUS;

EID: 0030059617     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126935     Document Type: Article

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