Sexually dimorphic effects of estrogen on spines in cultures of accessory olfactory bulb

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 500, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-81

  Wu, Yue ^a,b   Moriya Ito, Keiko ^b   Iwakura, Takashi ^a,c   Tsutiya, Atsuhiro ^a   Ichikawa, Masumi ^b   Ohtani Kaneko, Ritsuko ^a  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; Accessory olfactory bulb; Dendritic spines; Granule cells; Live imaging; Primary cell culture

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GRANULE CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITIC SPINES; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 79960288574     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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