Steroid hormone receptors: Long- and short-term integrators of the internal milieu and the external environment

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 563-568

  Blaustein, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; estradiol; estrogen receptor; neuroendocrinology; progesterone; progestin receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; HORMONES; HUMANS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84863724212     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: 14394286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1311605     Document Type: Review

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