Tyrosine hydroxylase-synthesizing cells in the hypothalamus of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Sex differences in the anteroventral periventricular preoptic area and effects of adult gonadectomy or neonatal gonadal hormones

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 197-204

  Lansing, Sarah W ^a   Lonstein, Joseph S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Dopamine; Preoptic area; Sex differences; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Voles

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ARGIPRESSIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASTRATION; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GONADECTOMY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE; VOLE; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; CASTRATION; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 32044445297     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20212     Document Type: Article

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