Exogenous estrogen acts differently on production of estrogen receptor in the preoptic area and the mediobasal hypothalamic nuclei in the newborn rat

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 247-254

  Orikasa, Chitose ^a,b   Mizuno, Kazuya ^a   Sakuma, Yasuo ^b   Hayashi, Shinji ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Down regulation; Estrogen receptor; Mediobasal hypothalamus; Neonatal estrogenization; Preoptic area

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030199895     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-0102(96)01050-4     Document Type: Article

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