The mouse primary visual cortex is a site of production and sensitivity to estrogens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Jeong, Jin Kwon ^a   Tremere, Liisa A ^a,b   Burrows, Kaiping ^a   Majewska, Ania K ^c   Pinaud, Raphael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRIATE CORTEX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VISUAL CORTEX;

MUS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79956358112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020400     Document Type: Article

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