Region-specific effect of testosterone on oxytocin receptor binding in the brain of the aged rat

Brain Research

Volumn 785, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 167-170

  Arsenijevic, Yvan ^a   Tribollet, Eliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Autoradiography; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Caudate putamen; Olfactory tubercle; Rat brain; Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PUTAMEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; TESTOSTERONE; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032559657     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01429-7     Document Type: Article

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