High-dose anabolic androgenic steroids modulate concentrations of nerve growth factor and expression of its low affinity receptor (p75-NGFr) in male rat brain

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 198-207

  Tirassa, P ^a,b   Thiblin, I ^b   Agren G ^b   Vigneti, E ^a   Aloe, L ^a   Stenfors, C ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

central nervous system; computer image analysis; nandrolone; rats; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; NANDROLONE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NANDROLONE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031035332     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19970115)47:2<198::AID-JNR8>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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