Publication Date:
1980-03-21
Description:
Sex steroid hormones and catecholamines have physiological interactions in the brain. By the combined use of autoradiography and fluorescence histochemistry, steroid hormone target sites and catecholamine neurons were visualized simultaneously in the same tissue preparation. By this dual localization method, [3H]estradiol and [3H]dihydrotestosterone target sites were identified in nuclei of many catecholamine cell bodies in the brainstem, and catecholamine nerve terminals were observed near certain steroid hormone target neurons. These results suggest close anatomical interrelations between steroid hormone sites of action and catecholamine sites of production and action in the brain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Heritage, A S -- Stumpf, W E -- Sar, M -- Grant, L D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Mar 21;207(4437):1377-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7355296" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adrenalectomy
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Animals
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Brain/cytology/*metabolism
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Castration
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Catecholamines/*metabolism
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Diencephalon/metabolism
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Dihydrotestosterone/*metabolism
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Estradiol/*metabolism
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Female
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Male
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Mesencephalon/metabolism
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Microscopy, Fluorescence
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Rats
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
