Androgenic down-regulation of urotensin II precursor, urotensin II-related peptide precursor and androgen receptor mRNA in the mouse spinal cord

Neuroscience

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 689-696

  Pelletier, G ^a   Lihrmann, I ^b   Dubessy, C ^b   Luu The, V ^a   Vaudry, H ^b   Labrie, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Dihydrotestosterone; Gene expression; in situ hybridization; Motoneurons; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; UROTENSIN II;

ANDROGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 17044393944     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.12.045     Document Type: Article

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