Direct, complex effects of estrogens on basal forebrain cholinergic neurons

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 506-522

  Bora, Susan H ^a   Liu, Zhiping ^a   Kecojevic, Aleksandar ^a   Merchenthaler, Istvan ^b   Koliatsos, Vassilis E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain; Choline acetyltransferase; Estrogen receptor; Hippocampus; Medial septum; Menopause; Neocortex; Neurotrophins; Nucleus basalis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ISOPROTEIN; NEUROTROPHIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CELL MATURATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; FOREBRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FORNIX (BRAIN); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SEPTUM OF BRAIN;

EID: 22044455415     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.03.015     Document Type: Article

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