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Estrogen modulates spontaneous alternation and the cholinergic phenotype in the basal forebrain.
Neuroscience - 1 Jan 1999
Miller M M, Hyder S M, Assayag R, Panarella S R, Tousignant P, Franklin K B
Abstract excerpt
We report that a small population of neurons expresses both choline acetyltransferase and classical estrogen receptor immunoreactivity and they are found primarily in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. In short-term ovariectomized ageing mice (24 months, n = 5) there were 41.0 +/- 4.1% fewer of these double-labeled cells than in young (five months, n = 5) short-term ovariectomized C57BL/6J mice. To study...
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