Neocortical and hippocampal glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity shows region-specific variation during the mouse estrous cycle

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 83, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 325-335

  Struble, Robert G ^a,d   Afridi, Seema ^a   Beckman Randall, Shari ^a   Li, Miao ^a   Cady, Craig ^b   Nathan, Britto ^c   McAsey, Mary E ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Hippocampus; Progesterone; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL METABOLISM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACROGLIA; METESTRUS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS;

EID: 33750929762     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095340     Document Type: Article

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