Estrogen in the medial preoptic nucleus of the hypothalamus modulates cold responses in female rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1339, Issue , 2010, Pages 49-59

  Uchida, Yuki ^a   Tokizawa, Ken ^a   Nakamura, Mayumi ^a   Mori, Hisae ^a   Nagashima, Kei ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body temperature; cFos; Estradiol; Tail temperature; UCP1

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEAT LOSS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHOLESTEROL; COLD TEMPERATURE; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; ION CHANNELS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TELEMETRY; THERMOGRAPHY;

RATTUS;

EID: 77952745806     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.04.021     Document Type: Article

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