Long-term gonadectomy affects the density of tyrosine hydroxylase- but not dopamine-β-hydroxylase-, choline acetyltransferase- or serotonin-immunoreactive axons in the medial prefrontal cortices of adult male rats

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 282-296

  Kritzer, Mary F ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; ESTRADIOL; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0037370882     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.3.282     Document Type: Article

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