Enhancement of aromatase gene expression in the mediobasal hypothalamus during anestrus in the beagle bitch

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 107-110

  Inaba, Toshio ^a   Namura, Tamaki ^a   Tani, Hiroyuki ^a   Matsuyama, Satoshi ^a   Torii, Ryuzo ^b   Kawate, Noritoshi ^a   Tamada, Hiromichi ^a   Hatoya, Shingo ^a   Kumagai, Daijiro ^a   Sugiura, Kikuya ^a   Sawada, Tsutomu ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Aromatase mRNA; Dog; Estrous cycle; Hypothalamus; Ovary

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; WATER;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN RELEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANESTRUS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; DOGS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 0037159585     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01001-7     Document Type: Article

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