Estrogen and exercise interact to regulate brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA and protein expression in the hippocampus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1992-2002

  Berchtold, Nicole C ^a   Kesslak, J Patrick ^a,b   Pike, Christian J ^a,b   Adlard, Paul A ^a   Cotman, Carl W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Neurobiology and Behaviour ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Alzheimer's disease; BDNF; Hippocampus; Rat

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SITTING; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENOPAUSE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0035783908     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2001.01825.x     Document Type: Article

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