A role for androgens in regulating circadian behavior and the suprachiasmatic nucleus

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5487-5495

  Karatsoreos, Ilia N ^a   Wang, Alice ^a   Sasanian, Jasmine ^b   Silver, Rae ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADECTOMY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ORCHIECTOMY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 35548972627     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0775     Document Type: Article

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