Alterations in the estrogen sensitivity of hypothalamic proenkephalin mRNA expression with age and prenatal exposure to alcohol

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 215-222

  Li, Yanbing ^a   McGivern, Robert F ^b   Nagahara, Alan H ^a   Handa, Robert J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estrogen; Fetal alcohol exposure; mRNA; Proenkephalin; Ventromedial nucleus

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROENKEPHALIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ENKEPHALINS; ESTROGENS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030945561     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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