Estrogen regulation of preproenkephalin messenger RNA in the forebrain of female mice

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-36

  Quiñones Jenab, Vanya ^a   Ogawa, Sonoko ^a   Jenab, Shirzad ^a   Pfaff, Donald W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Caudate putamen; Enkephalins; Hypothalamus; In situ hybridization; Lordosis; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PREPROENKEPHALIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ENKEPHALINS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030294358     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-0618(96)00175-5     Document Type: Article

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