Estrogen receptor α is involved in the estrogenic regulation of arginine vasopressin immunoreactivity in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of ovariectomized rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 474, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 135-139

  Grassi, Daniela ^a,b,d   Amorim, Miguel A ^a   Garcia Segura, Luis M ^a   Panzica, GianCarlo ^b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c National Institute of Neuroscience Italy   (Italy)

^d Scientific Institute of the Cavalieri Ottolenghi Foundation   (Italy)

Author keywords

DPN; Estradiol; Estrogen receptors; Hypothalamus; Magnocellular neurons; PPT

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OVARIECTOMY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 77951498944     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.022     Document Type: Article

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