Gonadal steroid hormone regulation of proopiomelanocortin gene expression in neurons that innervate the median eminence of the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 181-184

  Cheung, Sun ^a,c   Hammer Jr , Ronald P ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 1007 New England Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endorphin; Arcuate nucleus; Estrogen; Hypothalamus; Median eminence; Opioid; Progesterone; Proopiomelanocortin

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADECTOMY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEURONS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEROIDS;

EID: 0030890513     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00173-0     Document Type: Article

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