Ap lesions block suppression of estrous behavior, but not estrous cyclicity, in food-deprived Syrian hamsters

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 1 44-1, 1998, Pages

  Panicker, Anitha K ^a   Mangels, Robert A ^a   Powers, J Bradley ^a   Wade, George N ^a   Schneider, Jill E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Arcuate nucleus; Estrogen receptor; Paraventricular nucleus; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ESTRUS; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HAMSTER; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0031845052     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.275.1.r158     Document Type: Article

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