Androgen spares androgen-insensitive motoneurons from apoptosis in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus in rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 424-433

  Freeman, Louise M ^a,b   Watson, Neil V ^a,c   Breedlove, S Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MASCULINIZATION; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030424502     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1996.0047     Document Type: Article

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