Aromatase immunoreactivity in the bluehead wrasse brain, Thalassoma bifasciatum: Immunolocalization and co-regionalization with arginine vasotocin and tyrosine hydroxylase

Brain Research

Volumn 1126, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-101

  Marsh, K Erica ^a   Creutz, Lela M ^a   Hawkins, M Beth ^a   Godwin, John ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin; Aromatase; Dopamine; Estrogen; Hypothalamus; Teleost

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; AROMATASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TELENCEPHALON; TELEOST; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINE; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PERCIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VASOTOCIN;

TELEOSTEI; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM; THALASSOMA LUCASANUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845416383     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.017     Document Type: Article

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