Pregnancy-related changes in connections from the cervix to forebrain and hypothalamus in mice

Reproduction

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 155-164

  Yellon, Steven M ^a   Grisham, Lauren A ^a   Rambau, Genevieve M ^a   Lechuga, Thomas J ^a   Kirby, Michael A ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; UTERINE CERVIX; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BREEDING; C3H MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INNERVATION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROSECRETION; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS; SUID HERPESVIRUS 1;

ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROSENCEPHALON; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 77954183807     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-10-0002     Document Type: Article

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