Age-related decrease in the hypothalamic CRH mRNA expression is reduced by dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) treatment in male and female rats

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-114

  Givalois, Laurent ^a   Li, Songyun ^a   Pelletier, Georges ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging process; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Dehydroepiandrosterone; Gene expression; Hybridization; In situ; Paraventricular nucleus; Rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PRASTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030746147     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00088-0     Document Type: Article

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