Prenatal exposure of the ovine fetus to androgens reduces the proportion of neurons in the ventromedial and arcuate nucleus that are activated by short-term exposure to estrogen

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 163-170

  Robinson, Jane E ^a   Grindrod, Jo ^a   Jeurissen, Suzanne ^a   Taylor, James A ^a   Unsworth, William P ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone; Neurotransmitters

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TESTOSTERONE; NORADRENALIN; PROTEIN C FOS; TACHYKININ;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAM (SHEEP); SHEEP; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ESTRUS CYCLE; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SHEEP; SOMATOSTATIN; TACHYKININS; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 77950366891     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.079004     Document Type: Article

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