Control of central auditory processing by a brain-generated oestrogen

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 521-527

  Pinaud, Raphael ^a   Tremere, Liisa A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HEARING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84864134111     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3291     Document Type: Article

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