Abstract
Work on the effects of steroid hormones in classical peripheral target organs - estrogen in the uterus, progesterone in the chick oviduct, glucocorticoids in the liver and on mouse mammary tumor virus - has offered the neurobiologist analogies and hypotheses to test when investigating synthetic events related to the more complicated subject of hormone effects on nerve cells. In particular, many sex hormone actions in the reproductive tract involve growth: estrogens, androgens and progestins can have trophic consequences for the cells on which they act.
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Pfaff, D.W., Cohen, R.S. (1987). Estrogen Acting on Hypothalamic Neurons May Have Trophic Effect on Those Neurons and the Cells on Which They Synapse. In: Leung, P.C.K., Armstrong, D.T., Ruf, K.B., Moger, W.H., Friesen, H.G. (eds) Endocrinology and Physiology of Reproduction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1971-7_1
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