Immunocytochemical evidence for a progesterone receptor in neurons and glial cells of the rat spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-32

  Labombarda, Florencia ^a   Guennoun, Rachida ^b   Gonzalez, Susana ^a   Roig, Paulina ^a   Lima, Analia ^a   Schumacher, Michael ^b   De Nicola, Alejandro F ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Glial cells; Immunocytochemistry; Neurons; Progesterone receptor; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0034617338     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01191-5     Document Type: Article

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