The anti-dopaminergic agent, haloperidol, antagonises the feminising effect of neonatal serotonin on sexually dimorphic hypothalamic nuclei and tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive neurones

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 648-656

  Wilson, C A ^a   Dakin, C L ^a   Rico, J A ^a   Golmohamad, A ^a   Ahmad jauhari, Y ^a   Davies, D Ceri ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anteroventral periventricular nucleus; Arcuate nucleus; Sexual differentiation; Sexually differentiated nucleus of the preoptic area

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 4 IODO 2,5 DIMETHOXYAMPHETAMINE; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HALOPERIDOL; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VIRILIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

AMPHETAMINES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HALOPERIDOL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEURONS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 67149136353     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2009.01883.x     Document Type: Article

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