Estradiol increases the frequency of multiple synapse boutons in the hippocampal CA1 region of the adult female rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 108-117

  Woolley, Catherine S ^a   Wenzel, H Jurgen ^a   Schwartzkroin, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dendritic spines; electron microscopy; Schaffer collaterals; serial reconstruction; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0029744424     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960909)373:1<108::AID-CNE9>3.3.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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