Progesterone receptor gene and protein expression in the anterior preoptic area and hypothalamus of defeminized rats

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 338-346

  Arrieta, Isabel ^a   Díaz Ibáñez, Leticia Berenice ^a   Morales, Teresa ^b   Mendoza Garcés, Luciano ^a   Morimoto, Sumiko ^c   Moreno Mendoza, Norma ^d   Cerbón, Marco A ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Quimica   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Brain differentiation; Defeminization; Estradiol; Progesterone receptor; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0042510244     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.10241     Document Type: Article

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