Effects of age on GABA turnover rates in specific hypothalamic areas in female rats

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-62

  Jarry, H ^a   Wise, P M ^b   Leonhardt, S ^a   Wuttke, W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TURNOVER TIME;

EID: 0033032531     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212074     Document Type: Article

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