Acute 17β-estradiol treatment down-regulates serotonin 5HT(1A) receptor mRNA expression in the limbic system of female rats

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 169-172

  Österlund, Marie K ^a   Hurd, Yasmin L ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain; Depression; Estrogen; In situ hybridization; Serotonin receptor; Steroid hormone

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN 1 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT;

AFFECT; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COGNITION; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEMORY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032579761     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00018-7     Document Type: Article

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