Growth hormone replacement in hypophysectomized rats affects spatial performance and hippocampal levels of NMDA receptor subunit and PSD-95 gene transcript levels

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 267-273

  Le Grevès, Madeleine ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a   Berg, Marita ^a   Le Grevès, Pierre ^a   Fhölenhag, Karin ^b   Meyerson, Bengt ^a   Nyberg, Fred ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BIOVITRUM AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Hypophysectomized rats; IGF 1R transcripts; Morris water maze; NMDA receptor subunit; PSD 95

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; GROWTH HORMONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 33747588120     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0438-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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