Neurons and glial cells are added to the female rat anteroventral periventricular nucleus during puberty

Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2393-2402

  Mohr, Margaret A ^a,c   Garcia, Francisca L ^b   DonCarlos, Lydia L ^b   Sisk, Cheryl L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84974569613     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-2012     Document Type: Article

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