Chronic excess of corticosterone increases serotonergic fibre degeneration in aged rats

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 498-507

  Nyakas, C ^a,b   Mulder, J ^b   Felszeghy, K ^a   Keijser, J N ^b   Mehra, R ^c   Luiten, P G M ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Ageing; Corticosterone excess; Degeneration; Serotonergic and cholinergic fibres

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMPLANTATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TARGET ORGAN; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; THYMUS;

EID: 0038296086     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.2003.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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