Gonadal steroid modulation of sleep and wakefulness in male and female rats is sexually differentiated and neonatally organized by steroid exposure

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 204-214

  Cusmano, Danielle M ^a   Hadjimarkou, Maria M ^b   Mong, Jessica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENZYME REPRESSION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84891480624     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1624     Document Type: Article

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