Hormonal regulation of glutamate receptor gene expression in the anteroventral periventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3213-3222

  Gu, Guibao ^a   Varoqueaux, Frederique ^a   Simerly, Richard B ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; In situ hybridization; Ovarian steroids; Preoptic region; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033561166     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-08-03213.1999     Document Type: Article

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