Neuropeptides
Volume 41, Issue 1 , Pages 39-44 , February 2007

Oxytocin selectively increases ERα mRNA in the neonatal hypothalamus and hippocampus of female prairie voles

  • Hossein Pournajafi-Nazarloo

      Affiliations

    • The Brain-Body Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
    • ,
  • Michael S. Carr

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
    • ,
  • Eros Papademeteriou

      Affiliations

    • The Brain-Body Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
    • ,
  • Jennifer V. Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
    • ,
  • Bruce S. Cushing

      Affiliations

    • The Brain-Body Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
    • Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Current address: Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, United States Tel.: +1 330 972 6954; fax: +1 330 972 8445.

Received 23 March 2006 ,Accepted 4 October 2006.

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PII: S0143-4179(06)00117-X

doi: 10.1016/j.npep.2006.10.002

Neuropeptides
Volume 41, Issue 1 , Pages 39-44 , February 2007

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