Developmental time course of estradiol, testosterone, and dihydrotestosterone levels in discrete regions of male and female rat brain

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 223-235

  Konkle, Anne T M ^a   McCarthy, Margaret M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTIS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROMATASE; BRAIN; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 78650824047     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0607     Document Type: Article

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