Sex-steroidal regulation of aromatase mRNA expression in adult male rat brain: A quantitative non-radioactive in situ hybridization study

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 332, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 381-391

  Zhao, Changjiu ^a   Fujinaga, Ryutaro ^a   Yanai, Akie ^a   Kokubu, Keiji ^a   Takeshita, Yukio ^a   Watanabe, Yoshifumi ^a   Shinoda, Koh ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Amygdala; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Orchidectomy; Preoptic area; Rat (Wistar, male)

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; AROMATASE; DIGOXIGENIN; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; SESAME SEED OIL; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RNA PROBE; STRIA TERMINALIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS; SESAMUM INDICUM;

EID: 43549085252     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-008-0606-8     Document Type: Article

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