Estrogen control of central neurotransmission: Effect on mood, mental state, and memory

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 325-344

  Fink, George ^a,b   Sumner, Barbara E H ^a   Rosie, Roberta ^a   Grace, Oliver ^a   Quinn, John P ^a  

^a ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 hydroxtryptamine2 receptors; arginine vasopressin; bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; cerebral cortex; depression; estradiol 17 ; estrogen as psyhoproptectant; mania; nucleus accumbens; postnatal depression; premenstrual syndrome; psychosis; schizophrenia; social memory; testosterone, aromatase, serotonin, 5 hydroxytryptamine; Tourette's syndrome

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; MEMORY; MOOD; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RAT;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOOD DISORDERS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2A; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TESTOSTERONE; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; TERMINALIS;

EID: 0029902361     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02088099     Document Type: Article

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