Enhanced plasma DHEAS, brain acetylcholine and memory mediated by steroid sulfatase inhibition

Brain Research

Volumn 773, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 28-32

  Rhodes, Michael E ^a   Li, Pui Kai ^a   Burke, Alexis M ^a   Johnson, David A ^a  

^a Grad Sch Pharmaceutical Sci   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Dehydroepiandrosterone; Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate; Memory; Neurosteroid; Steroid; Sulfatase

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NEUROSTEROID; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STERYL SULFATASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMNESIA; ANIMALS; ARYLSULFATASES; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCOPOLAMINE; STERYL-SULFATASE; TYRAMINE;

EID: 0030671365     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00867-6     Document Type: Article

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