Estradiol Differentially Regulates c-Fos after Focal Cerebral Ischemia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 33, 2003, Pages 10487-10494

  Rau, Shane W ^a   Dubal, Dena B ^a,b   Böttner, Martina ^c   Wise, Phyllis M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell death; Estradiol; Immediate early gene; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JUNB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOOD; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

EID: 0344874576     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-33-10487.2003     Document Type: Article

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