Effects of estrogen on stress-induced activation of peptide neurons in PVN of ovariectomized rats

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 99-105

  Hara, Yasuko ^a   Kohno, Tomomi ^a   Takamata, Akira ^a   Ueyama, Takashi ^b   Morimoto, Keiko ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Fos; Estrogen; Oxytocin; Psychological stress; Vasopressin and nitric oxide producing neurons

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

RATTUS;

EID: 57649143119     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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