Androgens alter brain catecholamine content and blood pressure in the testicular feminized male rat

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-132

  Ely, Daniel ^a   Toot, Jonathan ^a   Salisbury, Ronald ^a   Ramirez, Rolando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

5 DHT; androgen; blood pressure (BP); castration; dopamine; norepinephrine; Testicular feminization; testosterone (T)

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASTRATION; CATECHOLAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MECHANISM; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; PREOPTIC AREA; PROGENY; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79952936691     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: 15256006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641963.2010.531840     Document Type: Article

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