Estrogen and Aging Affect the Subcellular Distribution of Estrogen Receptor-α in the Hippocampus of Female Rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3608-3614

  Adams, Michelle M ^a   Fink, Susan E ^a   Shah, Ravi A ^a   Janssen, William G M ^a   Hayashi, Shinji ^b   Milner, Teresa A ^c   McEwen, Bruce S ^d   Morrison, John H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CA1; Electron microscopy; Ovariectomy; Postembedding immunogold; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; AGE; ANIMAL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL SURFACE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OVARIECTOMY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0036581329     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-09-03608.2002     Document Type: Article

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