Altered striatal vulnerability to 3-nitropropionic acid in rats due to sex hormone levels during late phase of brain development

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 436, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 321-325

  Mogami, Mihoko ^a   Hayashi, Yutaro ^a   Masuda, Tadashi ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^a   Nishino, Hitoo ^a   Hida, Hideki ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Aromatase; Gender; Sexual differentiation; Striatum

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; FADROZOLE; FLUTAMIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRIATE CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BRAIN; CONVULSANTS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GENITALIA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 43049141550     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.03.055     Document Type: Article

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