Differential changes in responses of hypothalamic and brainstem neuronal populations to prolactin during lactation in the mouse

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 826-836

  Brown, R S E ^a   Herbison, A E ^a   Grattan, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Lactation; Neuroendocrinology; Prolactin; Prolactin receptor; pSTAT5

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; PROLACTIN; STAT5 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

MUS;

EID: 79953271670     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.089185     Document Type: Article

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