Estrogen is essential for maintaining nigrostriatal dopamine neurons in primates: Implications for Parkinson's disease and memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 8604-8609

  Leranth, C ^a   Roth, R H ^a   Elswoth, J D ^a   Naftolin, F ^a   Horvath, T L ^a   Redmond D E , Jr ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African green monkey; Apoptosis; Estrogen replacement; Ovariectomy; Parkinson's disease; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0034551768     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-23-08604.2000     Document Type: Article

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