Selective colocalization of immunoreactivity for intracellular gonadal hormone receptors and tyrosine hydroxylase in the ventral tegmental area, substantia nigra, and retrorubral fields in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 379, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 247-260

  Kritzer, Mary F ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

androgen; dopamine; estrogen; mesolimbic; nigrostriatal

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0031054842     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970310)379:2<247::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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