Basic neurobiology of ovarian steroids: Clinical implications

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-175

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognitive function; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Memory; Neuroprotection; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL DENSITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REPRODUCTION; SECOND MESSENGER; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SYNAPSE;

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