Prenatal melatonin exposure affects luteinizing hormone and hypothalamic and striatal neuropeptide Y in the male rat offspring

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 143-146

  Diaz E ^a   Debeljuk, L ^b,c   Arce, A ^b,c   Esquifino, A ^d   Diaz B ^a  

^a Faculty de Medicina   (Spain)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone; Neuropeptide Y; Prenatal melatonin; Striatum

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; JUVENILE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0342844382     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01425-7     Document Type: Article

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