Maternal behavior stimulates c-fos activity within estrogen receptor alpha-containing neurons in lactating rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-101

  Lonstein, Joseph S ^a   Gréco, Béatrice ^a   De Vries, Geert J ^a   Stern, Judith M ^b   Blaustein, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; c fos; Gonadal steroid receptors; Habenula; Immunocytochemistry; Lactation; Maternal behavior; Preoptic area

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABENULA; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; TACTILE STIMULATION;

EID: 0343389544     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054576     Document Type: Article

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