Developmental changes in hypothalamic oxytocin and oxytocin receptor mRNA expression and their sensitivity to fasting in male and female rats

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 105-109

  Matsuzaki, Toshiya ^a   Iwasa, Takeshi ^a   Munkhzaya, Munkhsaikhan ^a   Tungalagsuvd, Altankhuu ^a   Kawami, Takako ^a   Murakami, Masahiro ^a   Yamasaki, Mikio ^a   Yamamoto, Yuri ^a   Kato, Takeshi ^a   Kuwahara, Akira ^a   Yasui, Toshiyuki ^a   Irahara, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor ; Hypothalamus; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; RAT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DIET RESTRICTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS;

RATTUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FASTING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84923016632     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: 1873474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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