The morphometry of astrocytes in the rostral preoptic area exhibits a diurnal rhythm on proestrus: Relationship to the luteinizing hormone surge and effects of age

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 274-280

  Cashion, Adrienne B ^a   Smith, Matthew J ^a   Wise, Phyllis M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL SURFACE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROESTRUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037229992     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220711     Document Type: Article

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