Thinking globally, acting locally: Steroid hormone regulation of the dendritic architecture, synaptic connectivity and death of an individual neuron

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 421-442

  Weeks, Janis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; ION; STEROID HORMONE;

ABDOMEN; ANALYTIC METHOD; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN REGION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL LOSS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; LARVA; MANDUCA SEXTA; METAMORPHOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTH; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNAPSE; VERTEBRATE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0141429106     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(03)00102-3     Document Type: Review

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