The organizational effects of oxytocin on the central expression of estrogen receptor α and oxytocin in adulthood

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kramer, Kristin M ^a   Yoshida, Shigeto ^b   Papademetriou, Eros ^b   Cushing, Bruce S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; OXYTOCIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOLE; AGING; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OXYTOCIN;

EID: 35648991900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-71     Document Type: Article

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