Mast cells accumulate in the anogenital region of somatosensory thalamic nuclei during estrus in female mice

Brain Research

Volumn 1114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-97

  Kovács, Katalin J ^a   Larson, Alice A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimorphism; Estrogen; Ovariectomy; Progesterone; Spinothalamic; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; ESTROGEN;

ANALYSIS; ANATOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRANULATION; ESTRUS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HORMONE ACTION; HYPERPLASIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJECTION; MALE; MAST CELL; MATING; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; SAMPLING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; CELL DEGRANULATION; ESTROGENS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33748807759     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.100     Document Type: Article

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