Steroid regulation of brain aromatase expression in glia: Female preoptic and vocal motor nuclei

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-58

  Forlano, Paul M ^a,b   Bass, Andrew H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Brain aromatase; Estrogen; Glia; Steroid; Teleost; Vocal motor

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; BRAIN ENZYME; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONIC MOTOR NUCLEUS; TELEOST; VOCAL MOTOR NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEUROGLIA; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 24944437045     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20178     Document Type: Article

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