Diversity of mechanisms involved in aromatase regulation and estrogen action in the brain

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1800, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1094-1105

  Charlier, Thierry D ^a   Cornil, Charlotte A ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^b   Balthazart, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estrogen receptor; Male sexual behavior; Non genomic action of steroids; Preoptic area; Steroid receptor coregulator

Indexed keywords

17 HYDROXYANDROSTATRIENEDIONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTATRIENEDIONE; ANTIANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOROZOLE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; CALCIUM; NCOA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BIOAVAILABILITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77956173038     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2009.12.010     Document Type: Review

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