Synapse loss from chronically elevated glucocorticoids: Relationship to neuropil volume and cell number in hippocampal area CA3

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 498, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 363-374

  Tata, Despina A ^a,b   Marciano, Veronica A ^a   Anderson, Brenda J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Cortisol; Glia; Hippocampus; Pyramidal cells; Stereology; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DRUG VEHICLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIOSIS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS; SYNAPSES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33746989256     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21071     Document Type: Article

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