Effects of gonadal steroid hormones on GIRK2 gene transcription in the rat central nervous system

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 431, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 201-205

  Ahangar, Nematollah ^a   Kazemi, Bahram ^b   Jorjani, Masoumeh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

CNS; Development; GIRK2; Gonadal sex steroids; Hormonal regulation; Rat; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASTRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GIRK2 GENE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD;

AGE FACTORS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CASTRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 38349050031     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.11.034     Document Type: Article

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