Gonadal steroids reduce the density of axospinous synapses in the developing rat arcuate nucleus: An electron microscopy analysis

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 432, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 259-267

  Mong, Jessica A ^a,c   Roberts, Rosalinda C ^b   Kelly, Joyce J ^b   McCarthy, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine density; Development; Estrogen; Hypothalamus; Neuronal glial interactions; Synaptic patterning

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL INTERACTION; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; AXONS; DENDRITES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; NEUROPIL; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; SYNAPSES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0035795198     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.1101     Document Type: Article

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