Distribution of vasopressin and oxytocin receptors in the rat spinal cord: Sex-related differences and effect of castration in pudendal motor nuclei

Neuroscience

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 499-509

  Tribollet, E ^a   Barberis, C ^b   Arsenijevic, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b Inst Natl de la Sante et de la R   (France)

Author keywords

castration; motoneuron; oxytocin receptors; spinal cord; spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus; vasopressin receptors

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LIGANDS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVES; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0031562356     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00591-X     Document Type: Article

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