Hypothalamic imprinting by gonadal steroid hormones

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 511, Issue , 2002, Pages 57-73

  Gorski, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; STEROID HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CASTRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; FETUS; GONAD; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LORDOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FUNCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREOPTIC AREA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRIA TERMINALIS; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036931232     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0621-8_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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