• DOI:10.1016/j.mcn.2004.04.012
Corpus ID: 25280077

Estrogen deficiency leads to apoptosis in dopaminergic neurons in the medial preoptic area and arcuate nucleus of male mice

@article{Hill2004EstrogenDL,
  title={Estrogen deficiency leads to apoptosis in dopaminergic neurons in the medial preoptic area and arcuate nucleus of male mice},
  author={R. Hill and S. Pompolo and M. E. Jones and E. Simpson and W. C. Boon},
  journal={Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience},
  year={2004},
  volume={27},
  pages={466-476}
}

R. Hill, S. Pompolo, +2 authors W. C. Boon

Published 2004

Biology, Medicine

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

The aromatase knockout (ArKO) mouse is unable to synthesize estrogens. Immunohistochemical studies on active caspase-3 and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) revealed apoptosis of dopaminergic neurons in the medial preoptic area (MPO) and arcuate nucleus (Arc) of the hypothalamus of 1-year-old (1yo) male ArKO mice while no active caspase-3 was detected in wild type (WT). Furthermore, the number of TH-positive cells in the MPO and caudal Arc was significantly decreased in 1yo ArKO compared to WT. RNase… CONTINUE READING

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