Repeated anabolic/androgenic steroid exposure during adolescence alters phosphate-activated glutaminase and glutamate receptor 1 (GluR1) subunit immunoreactivity in Hamster brain: correlation with offensive aggression

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-85

  Fischer, Shannon G ^a   Ricci, Lesley A ^a   Melloni Jr , Richard H ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anabolic androgenic steroid; Glutamate; Phosphate activated glutaminase

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PHOSPHATE ACTIVATED GLUTAMASE; SESAME SEED OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECEPTORS, AMPA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 34247534971     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.02.025     Document Type: Article

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