Molecular profiling of postnatal development of the hypothalamus in female and male rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Walker, Deena M ^b   Kirson, Dean ^b   Perez, Lorenzo F ^a,b   Gore, Andrea C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Hypothalamus; Puberty; Sexual differentiation; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ESR1 PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; KISSPEPTIN; KISSPEPTIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROKININ B; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; KISS1 PROTEIN, RAT; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEDIOBASAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; KISSPEPTINS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROKININ B; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84877637185     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.102798     Document Type: Article

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