Neurosteroids: Deficient cognitive performance in aged rats depends on low pregnenolone sulfate levels in the hippocampus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 26, 1997, Pages 14865-14870

  Vallée, Monique ^a   Mayo, Willy ^a   Darnaudéry, Muriel ^a   Corpéchot, Colette ^a   Young, Jacques ^a   Koehl, Muriel ^a   Le Moal, Michel ^a   Baulieu, Etienne Emile ^a   Robel, Paul ^a   Simon, Hervé ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROSTEROID; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE;

AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; STEROID BINDING;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREGNENOLONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 13144279291     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.26.14865     Document Type: Article

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