Is there a gender difference of somatostatin-receptor density in the human brain? [2]

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 440-441

  Pichler, Robert ^a   Maschek, Wilhelmine ^a   Crespillo, Carmen ^b   Esteva, Isabel ^b   Soriguer, Federico ^b  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain; Gender differences; Somatostatin receptor

Indexed keywords

PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER IDENTITY; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; MALE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 0036820176     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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