Receptors to steroid hormones and aromatase are expressed by cultured motoneurons but not by glial cells derived from rat embryo spinal cord

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 284-297

  Rakotoarivelo, Clovis ^a   Petite, Didier ^a   Lambard, Sophie ^b   Fabre, Christine ^a   Rouleau, Caroline ^a   Lumbroso, Serge ^c   De Weille, Jan ^a   Privat, Alain ^a   Carreau, Serge ^b   Mersel, Marcel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Glial cells; Gonadal steroid receptors; Gonadal steroids; Motoneuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; METRIZAMIDE; STEROID HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENSITY GRADIENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLIA CELL; HORMONE METABOLISM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOTONEURON; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EMBRYO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROGLIA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 20144363189     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083611     Document Type: Article

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