Caloric restriction reduces cell loss and maintains estrogen receptor-alpha immunoreactivity in the pre-optic hypothalamus of female B6D2F1 mice

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 197-203

  Yaghmaie, Farzin ^a   Saeed, Omar ^a   Garan, Steven A ^b   Freitag, Warren ^b   Timiras, Paola S ^a   Sternberg, Hal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Aging Research Centre   (Canada)

^c BIOTIME INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Caloric restriction; Estrogen receptor alpha; Hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIFESPAN; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREOPTIC AREA; RELIABILITY; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 22144499238     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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