Role of cytochrome P450 in synaptocrinology: Endogenous estrogen synthesis in the brain hippocampus

Drug Metabolism Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 353-369

  Murakami, Gen ^a   Tanabe, Nobuaki ^a   Ishii, Hiro Taka ^a   Ogiue Ikeda, Mari ^a   Tsurugizawa, Tomokazu ^a   Mukai, Hideo ^a   Hojo, Yasushi ^a   Takata, Norio ^a   Furukawa, Aizo ^a   Kimoto, Tetsuya ^a   Kawato, Suguru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Neurosteroid; P450

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

CIRCULATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; REVIEW; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ESTROGENS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33746760055     PISSN: 03602532     EISSN: 10979883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602530600724068     Document Type: Review

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