The Distribution of Immunoreactivity for Intracellular Androgen Receptors in the Cerebral Cortex of Hormonally Intact Adult Male and Female Rats: Localization in Pyramidal Neurons Making Corticocortical Connections

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 268-280

  Kritzer, Mary ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Gonadal hormones; Intracellular receptors; Neocortex; Pyramidal neurons; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLERA TOXIN; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERFUSION; PHENOTYPE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SILVER STAINING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1342267201     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg127     Document Type: Article

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