Dehydroepiandrosterone Increases Hippocampal Spine Synapse Density in Ovariectomized Female Rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1042-1045

  Hajszan, Tibor ^a,b   Maclusky, Neil J ^c   Leranth, Csaba ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; LETROZOLE; PRASTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DENDRITES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 1442274661     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1252     Document Type: Article

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