Corticosterone effects on bdnf expression in the hippocampus implications for memory formation

Stress

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 201-208

  Schaaf, M J M ^a   De Kloet, E R ^b   Vreugdenhil, E ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid; Learning; Mineralocorticoid; Neurotrophin; Stress; Water maze

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; KAINIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVIEW;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033920519     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890009001124     Document Type: Article

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