Decreased hypothalamic aromatization in female rats of true precocious puberty

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 92-96

  Tian, Zhan Zhuang ^a   Zhao, Hong ^a   Chen, Bo Ying ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Danazol; Female rats; Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH); True precocious puberty

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; DANAZOL; GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VAGINA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 3242736707     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.05.012     Document Type: Article

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