Gonadal hormones after hypothalamic GABA and glutamate levels

Brain Research

Volumn 747, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 165-168

  Luine, Victoria N ^a   Grattan, David R ^b   Selmanoff, Michael ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; glutamate; hypothalamus; lordosis; ventromedial nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; OVARIECTOMY; POSTURE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030614708     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01255-3     Document Type: Article

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