Gonadectomy in adult life increases tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in the prefrontal cortex and decreases open field activity in male rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 939-954

  Adler, A ^a   Vescovo, P ^a   Robinson, J K ^a   Kritzer, M F ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association cortex; Cingulate cortex; Dopamine; Nucleus accumbens; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE ACTION; INNERVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ENZYME INDUCTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032910393     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00341-8     Document Type: Article

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