The effects of long-term treatment with estradiol and medroxyprogesterone acetate on tyrosine hydroxylase fibers and neuron number in the medial prefrontal cortex of aged female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4874-4882

  Chisholm, Nioka C ^a   Packard, Alexandria R ^a   Koss, Wendy A ^a   Juraska, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PROGESTERONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM CARE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERUS WEIGHT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; UTERUS;

EID: 84866753325     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1412     Document Type: Article

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