Ovarian steroids modulate leu-enkephalin levels and target leu-enkephalinergic profiles in the female hippocampal mossy fiber pathway

Brain Research

Volumn 1232, Issue , 2008, Pages 70-84

  Torres Reveron, Annelyn ^a   Khalid, Sana ^a   Williams, Tanya J ^a   Waters, Elizabeth M ^b   Drake, Carrie T ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^b   Milner, Teresa A ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CA3; Dentate gyrus; Estrogen; Estrous cycle; Immunoreactivity; Opioid; Progestin; Rat

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DIESTRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRUS; EXON; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; DENSITOMETRY; ENKEPHALIN, LEUCINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PROGESTINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 50849144667     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.058     Document Type: Article

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