Colocalization of androgen receptors and mating-induced Fos immunoreactivity in neurons that project to the central tegmental field in male rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 220-236

  Gréco, Béatrice ^a   Edwards, David A ^a   Michael, Richard P ^b   Zumpe, Doris ^b   Clancy, Andrew N ^b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early immediate genes; Fluorogold; Gonadal steroids; Midbrain; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROGOLD; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COPULATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN; EJACULATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; MALE; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD; STILBAMIDINES; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 17344374959     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990531)408:2<220::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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