Expression of estrogen receptor α and β transcripts in female monkey hippocampus and hypothalamus

Brain Research

Volumn 788, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 320-322

  Register, Thomas C ^a   Shively, Carol A ^a   Lewis, Carole E ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dementia; Estrogen receptor; Hippocampus; Memory; Menopause; Neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032579797     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00036-5     Document Type: Article

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