Immunoreactive TSH cells in juvenile and peripubertal rats after estradiol and human chorionic gonadotropin treatment

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 117-123

  Sekulić, Milka ^a   Šošić Jurjević, Branka ^a   Filipović, Branko ^a   Manojlović Stojanoski, Milica ^a   Milošević, Verica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Female rats; hCG; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Pituitary; Thyroid stimulating hormone; TSH cells

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME KINETICS; HORMONES;

ESTRADIOL; HCG; HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE;

BIODIVERSITY;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL LABELING; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BINDING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PEROXIDASE ANTIPEROXIDASE COMPLEX; PREPUBERTY; RAT; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33745008999     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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