Marked recovery of functional metabolic activity and laminar volumes in the rat hippocampus and dentate gyrus following postnatal hypothyroid growth retardation: A quantitative cytochrome oxidase study

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 556-568

  Farahvar, Arash ^a   Darwish, Naser H ^a   Sladek, Stefan ^a   Meisami, Esmail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Brain rehabilitation; Brain retardation; Cytochrome oxidase; Dentate gyrus; Experimental cretinism; Hippocampal growth and development; Hippocampal plasticity; Hippocampus; Laminar volumetric analysis; Neural activity; Neurologic recovery; Oxidative recovery; Postnatal hypothyroidism; Propylthiouracil (PTU)

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DRINKING WATER; LIOTHYRONINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DENTATE GYRUS; DENTATE HILUS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS MOLECULAR LAYER; HIPPOCAMPUS PYRAMIDAL CELL LAYER; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STRATUM ORIENS; SYNAPSE; TISSUE SECTION; VOLUMETRY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 33947628682     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.12.019     Document Type: Article

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