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Sex Difference in Glucocorticoid Regulation of Vasopressin mRNA in the Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus

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  1. Alejandro F. De Nicola

    Present address: Laboratory of Neuroendocrine Biochemistry, Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental, Obligado 2490, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  1. Laboratory of Neuroendocrine Biochemistry, Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental—CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Monica G. Ferrini, Claudia A. Grillo, Gerardo Piroli & Alejandro F. De Nicola

  2. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Monica G. Ferrini

  3. Facultad de Medicina, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Claudia A. Grillo & Gerardo Piroli

  4. Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    E. Ronald de Kloet

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Ferrini, M.G., Grillo, C.A., Piroli, G. et al. Sex Difference in Glucocorticoid Regulation of Vasopressin mRNA in the Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus. Cell Mol Neurobiol 17, 671–686 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022538120627

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