Nitric oxidergic cells related to ejaculation in gerbil forebrain contain androgen receptor and respond to testosterone

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 519, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 900-915

  Simmons, Danielle A ^a   Yahr, Pauline ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Male sex behavior; Medial preoptic nucleus; Paracrine neurotransmission; Posterodorsal medial amygdala; Posterodorsal preoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FOREBRAIN; GERBIL; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MATING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PREOPTIC AREA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79251564064     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22557     Document Type: Article

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