Neural progestin receptors and female sexual behavior

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-161

  Mani, Shaila K ^a   Blaustein, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Dopamine; Progesterone; Progestin receptors

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; INTERMEDIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN DARPP 32; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; PROLACTIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN SH3; RAF PROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LORDOSIS; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MESENCEPHALON; MICRODISSECTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; START CODON; STEROID BINDING; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84866558740     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338668     Document Type: Article

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