Quantitative analysis of long-form aromatase mRNA in the male and female rat brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Tabatadze, Nino ^a   Sato, Satoru M ^a   Woolley, Catherine S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; LONG FORM AROMATASE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HORMONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CASTRATION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; FEMALE; GONAD FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS; STRIA TERMINALIS BED NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84904552692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100628     Document Type: Article

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