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Lopez V, Wagner CK (submitted) Progestin receptor is transiently expressed perinatally in neurons of the rat isocortex.

Quadros PS, Pfau JL, Wagner CK (2007) Distribution of progesterone receptor immunoreactivity in the fetal and neonatal rat forebrain. J Comp Neurol. 504 (1):42-56.

Wagner CK(2006) The many faces of progesterone: a role in adult and developing male brain. Front Neuroendocrinol. 27 (3):340-59.

Wagner CK, Xu J, Pfau JL, Quadros PS, De Vries GJ, Arnold AP (2004) Neonatal mice possessing an Sry transgene show a masculinized pattern of progesterone receptor expression in the brain independent of sex chromosome status. Endocrinology, 145: 1046-1049.

Quadros PS, Goldstein AYN, De Vries GJ and Wagner CK (2002) Regulation of sex differences in progesterone receptor expression in the medial preoptic nucleus of postnatal rats, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 14: 761-767.

Quadros PS, Pfau JL, Goldstein AYN, De Vries GJ and Wagner CK (2002) Sex differences in progesterone receptor expression: A potential mechanism for estradiol-mediated sexual differentiation. Endocrinology, 143: 3727-3739.

Quadros PS, Lopez V, De Vries GJ, Chung WCJ and Wagner CK (2002) Progesterone receptors and the sexual differentiation of the medial preoptic nucleus. Journal of Neurobiology, 51: 24-32.

Romeo RD, Wagner CK, Jansen HT, Diedrich SL and Sisk CL. (2002) Estradiol induces hypothalamic progesterone receptors but does not activate behavior in male hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) before puberty. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116: 198-205.

Wagner CK, Pfau JL, De Vries GJ and Merchenthaler IJ (2001) Sex differences in progesterone receptor immunoreactivity in neonatal brain are dependent on estrogen receptor alpha expression. Journal of Neurobiology, 47: 176-182.

Lonstein JL, Quadros PS and Wagner CK (2001) Effects of neonatal RU486 on adult parental, sexual and fearful behaviors in the rat., Behavioral Neuroscience, 115: 58-70.

Lonstein JS, Wagner CK and De Vries GJ (1999). Comparison of the ‘nursing’ and other parental behaviors of nulliparous and lactating female rats. Hormones and Behavior, 36: 242-251.

Wagner CK, Nakayama AY, De Vries GJ (1998) Potential role of maternal progesterone in the sexual differentiation of the brain. Endocrinology 139(8): 3658-3661.

Forger, N.G., Wagner, C.K., Contois, M., Bengston, L. and MacLennan, A.J. Ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor a in spinal motoneurons is regulated by gonadal homrones. Journal of Neuroscience 18: 8720-8729, 1998.

Wagner, C.K., Silverman, A.-J. and Morrell, J.I. (1998) Evidence for estrogen receptor in cell nuclei and axon terminals within the lateral habenula: Regulation during pregnancy, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 392: 330-342.

Wagner, C.K. and Morrell, J.I. (1997) Neuroanatomical distribution of aromatase MRNA in the rat brain: indications of regional regulation. J. Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 61: 307-14.

Wagner, C.K. and Morrell, J.I. (1996) Distribution and steroid hormone regulation of aromatase mRNA expression in the forebrain of adult male and female rats: a cellular-level analysis using in situ hybridization, J Comp Neurol, 370: 71-84.

Wagner, C.K. and Morrell, J.I. (1996) Levels of estrogen receptor immunoreactivity are altered in behaviorally-relevant brain regions in female rats during pregnancy. Molecular Brain Research, 42: 328-336.

Wagner, C.K. and Morrell, J.I. (1995) In situ analysis of estrogen receptor mRNA expression in the brain of female rats during pregnancy. Brain Res Mol Brain Res, 33(1): 127-135.