Differential control of sex differences in estrogen receptor α in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and anteroventral periventricular nucleus

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3836-3846

  Kelly, D A ^a   Varnum, M M ^a   Krentzel, A A ^a   Krug, S ^a   Forger, N G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FLUTAMIDE; LETROZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ADULTHOOD; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARIECTOMY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84884692126     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1239     Document Type: Article

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