The development of a species difference in the local distribution of brain estrogen receptive cells.

doi:10.1016/0165-3806(95)00210-3

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The development of a species difference in the local distribution of brain estrogen receptive cells.

Brain research. Developmental brain research - 30 Apr 1996

Gahr M, Balaban E

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Estrogen receptors (ER) are crucial for estrogen-dependent brain differentiation and for estrogen-dependent neural functions of vertebrates. ER are expressed in a area-specific pattern in the vertebrate brain. The mechanisms that lead to the area-specific expression of ER are unknown. Here we use...

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Animals
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Brain
Brain Chemistry
Chick Embryo
Hypothalamus
Immunohistochemistry
Phenotype
Quail
Receptors, Estrogen
Species Specificity
Transplantation Chimera
Transplantation, Heterologous

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