Median raphe mediates estrogenic effects to the hippocampus in female rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 309-317

  Prange Kiel, Janine ^a,b   Rune, Gabriele M ^b   Leranth, Csaba ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HT; Astrocyte processes; Local estradiol treatment; Serotonin; Spine synapse density

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALCULATION; CANNULATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE; VARICOSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; OVARIECTOMY; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0842265630     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2003.03124.x     Document Type: Article

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