β-Estradiol induces synaptogenesis in the hippocampus by enhancing brain-derived neurotrophic factor release from dentate gyrus granule cells

Brain Research

Volumn 1150, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 108-120

  Sato, Kaoru ^a   Akaishi, Tatsuhiro ^b   Matsuki, Norio ^c   Ohno, Yasuo ^a   Nakazawa, Ken ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estradiol; BDNF; CA3; Dentate gyrus; Organotypic hippocampal slice culture; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; FULVESTRANT; K 252A;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGANOGENESIS; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34247887363     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.02.093     Document Type: Article

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