Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase activity in the paraventricular nucleus of the rat hypothalamus is modulated by estradiol

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-78

  Sanchez F ^a   Martinez, M E ^a   Rubio, M ^a   Carretero, J ^a   Moreno, M N ^b   Vazquez R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Hypothalamus; Magnocellular; Neuroendocrine; Nitric oxide synthase; Parvicellular

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032483394     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00581-3     Document Type: Article

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