Astrocyte-like cells as a main target for estrogen action during neuronal differentiation

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 562-570

  Merlo, Sara ^a,b   Calafiore, Marco ^a   Vancheri, Carlo ^a   Luigi Canonico, Pier ^b   Copani, Agata ^a   Sortino, Maria Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Development; Estrogen receptor; Neural stem cells

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGENS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUS;

EID: 33947587166     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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