Sex differences in the location of immunochemically defined cell populations in the mouse preoptic area/anterior hypothalamus

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-41

  Wolfe, Cory A ^a   Van Doren, Margaret ^b   Walker, Heather J ^a,b   Seney, Marianne L ^a,b   McClellan, Kristy M ^a   Tobet, Stuart A ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; Cell fate; Gonadal steroids; Migration; Neurogenesis; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; CELL COUNT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; POA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20444434726     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devbrainres.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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