Ovarian steroids influence cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of the adult female rat in a dose- and time-dependent manner

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 481, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 252-265

  Tanapat, Patima ^a   Hastings, Nicholas B ^a   Gould, Elizabeth ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Estrogen; Hippocampal formation; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HISTONES; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 11144328239     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20385     Document Type: Article

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