Flattening the glucocorticoid rhythm causes changes in hippocampal expression of messenger RNAs codingstructural and functional proteins: Implications for agingand depression

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 821-829

  Gartside, Sarah E ^a   Leitch, Melville M ^a   McQuade, Richard ^a   Swarbrick, Daniel J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcium calmodulin dependent kinase; Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Microtubule associated protein 2; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0038050725     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300104     Document Type: Article

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