Regional difference in sex steroid action on formation of morphological sex differences in the anteroventral periventricular nucleus and principal nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Kanaya, Moeko ^a   Tsuda, Mumeko C ^b   Sagoshi, Shoko ^b   Nagata, Kazuyo ^b   Morimoto, Chihiro ^b   Thu, Chaw Kyi Tha ^a   Toda, Katsumi ^c   Kato, Shigeaki ^d   Ogawa, Sonoko ^b   Tsukahara, Shinji ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d Soma Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; SEX HORMONE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; PRIMER DNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTEROVENTRAL PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; AROMATASE GENE; ARTICLE; BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA GENE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA GENE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DNA PRIMERS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84911949921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112616     Document Type: Article

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