Phytoestrogens alter hypothalamic calbindin-D(28k) levels during prenatal development

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 277-281

  Taylor, Heather ^a   Quintero, E Matthew ^b   Iacopino, Anthony M ^b   Lephart, Edwin D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calbindin D(28K); Hypothalamus; Phytoestrogen; Prenatal development; Rat; Sexual differentiation; Western analysis

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCIUM; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FETUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; PHYTOESTROGENS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALIA; POA;

EID: 0033553360     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(99)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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