Sociosexual stimuli affect ER- and PR-mRNA abundance in the hypothalamus of all-female whiptail lizards

Brain Research

Volumn 741, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 344-347

  Hartman, Vesta ^a,b   Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

reptile; steroid hormone receptors; ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIZARDS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030601961     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01087-6     Document Type: Article

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