Androgen-sensitivity of somata and dendrites of spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) motoneurons in male C57BL6J mice

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-212

  Zuloaga, Damian G ^a   Morris, John A ^a   Monks, Douglas A ^b   Breedlove, S Marc ^a   Jordan, Cynthia L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Dendritic plasticity; Immunocytochemistry; Neuromuscular; Retrograde tracing; Sexually dimorphic

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CHOLERA TOXIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; DENDRITE; FOOT; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33846075037     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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