Estrogen receptor-α, in the raphe serotonergic and supramammillary area calretinin-containing neurons of the female rat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 417-420

  Leranth, Csaba ^a   Shanabrough, Marya ^a   Horvath, Tamas L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Double immunostaining; Long term potentiation; Memory; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

CALRETININ; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAMMILLARY BODY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; THETA RHYTHM;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0032856496     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050863     Document Type: Article

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