Prolactin secretion in response to prolactin-releasing peptide and the expression of the prolactin-releasing peptide gene in the medulla oblongata are estrogen dependent in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-106

  Tokita, Reiko ^a   Nakata, Tomoko ^a   Katsumata, Harumi ^a   Konishi, Shunichiro ^a   Onodera, Hidetaka ^a   Imaki, Junko ^a   Minami, Shiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Hypothalamus; Medulla oblongata; Messenger ribonucleic acid; Prolactin; Prolactin releasing peptide; Secretion

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN RELEASING FACTOR; PROTIRELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT;

EID: 0032698311     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00796-X     Document Type: Article

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