Estrogen receptor-alpha immunoreactivity in the arcuate hypothalamus of young and middle-aged female mice

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-62

  Yaghmaie, Farzin ^a   Saeed, Omar ^b   Garan, Steven A ^c   Voelker, Mark A ^d   Sternberg, Hal ^d   Timiras, Paola S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BIOTIME INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Arcuate hypothalamus; Estrogen receptor alpha; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 77749310837     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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