Prenatal exposure of testosterone prevents SDN-POA neurons of postnatal male rats from apoptosis through NMDA receptor

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2374-2380

  Hsu, Hseng Kuang ^a,b   Yang, Rei Cheng ^a,b   Shih, Huei Chuan ^a,b   Hsieh, Y A Lun ^a,b   Chen, U Yang ^a,b   Hsu, Chin ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MEIHO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 ANDROSTEN 4 OL 3,17 DIONE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; DIZOCILPINE; ESTRADIOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0035655726     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2001.86.5.2374     Document Type: Article

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