Androgen receptor deficiency alters the arginine-vasopressin sexually dimorphic system in Tfm rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 253, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-77

  Allieri, F ^a   Spigolon, G ^a   Melcangi, R C ^c   Collado, P ^b   Guillamon A ^b   Gotti, S ^a   Panzica, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Androgen insensitivity syndrome; Arginine vasopressin; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Lateral septum; Medial amygdaloid nucleus; Tfm rats

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ARGIPRESSIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PEROXIDASE; SEX HORMONE;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; PELVIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX ROLE; STRIA TERMINALIS; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; TFM GENE; VAGINA SMEAR;

AFP; AFP-KO; AIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANOVA; AR; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; ARGININE-VASOPRESSIN; ARGININE-VASOPRESSIN IMMUNOREACTIVE; AVP; AVP-IR; BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; BST; DHT; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; E(2); ED; EMBRYONIC DAY; ER; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LATERAL SEPTUM; LS; MEA; MECP2; MEDIAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MPOA; PBS; PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINE; PND; POSTNATAL DAY; T; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION MUTATION; TESTOSTERONE; TFM; TFM RATS; Α-FETOPROTEIN; Α-FETOPROTEIN KNOCKOUT MICE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MUTATION; NEURONS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84884567054     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.036     Document Type: Article

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