Estrogen receptors are found in glia and at extranuclear neuronal sites in the dorsal striatum of female rats: Evidence for cholinergic but not dopaminergic colocalization

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5373-5383

  Almey, Anne ^a   Filardo, Edward J ^c   Milner, Teresa A ^b   Brake, Wayne G ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN REGION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84867808065     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1458     Document Type: Article

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