Androgen receptor is expressed in murine choroid plexus and downregulated by 5α-Dihydrotestosterone in male and female mice

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-49

  Alves, C Henrique ^a   Gonçalves, Isabel ^a   Socorro, Sílvia ^a   Baltazar, Graça ^a   Quintela, Telma ^a   Santos, Cecília R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

5 dihydrotestosterone; Androgen receptor; Choroid plexus; Mice; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; MESSENGER RNA; ANDROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL CULTURE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WISTAR RAT;

MURINAE; MUS; RATTUS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CHOROID PLEXUS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 68949213641     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-008-9157-4     Document Type: Article

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