Cellular and subcellular localization of estrogen and progestin receptor immunoreactivities in the mouse hippocampus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2729-2743

  Mitterling, Katherine L ^a,b   Spencer, Joanna L ^a   Dziedzic, Noelle ^b   Shenoy, Sushila ^b   McCarthy, Katharine ^a   Waters, Elizabeth M ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Milner, Teresa A ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

axons; dendrites; electron microscopy; estrogen receptor a; estrogen receptor b; extranuclear steroid receptors

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITIC SPINE; DIESTRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURONS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 77954578371     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22361     Document Type: Article

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