Thinking outside the pyramidal cell: Unexplored contributions of interneurons and neuropeptide Y to estrogen-induced synapse formation in the hippocampus

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Nakamura, Nozomu H ^a,b   Akama, Keith T ^a   Yuen, Genevieve S ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholinergic projection; Estradiol; Estrogen receptor; GABAergic; Glutamate dependent synaptic motility; Hippocampal interneurons; Neuropeptide Y; Parvalbumin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTROGEN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARVALBUMIN;

ADULTHOOD; CELL MOTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURON; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34248538169     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revneuro.2007.18.1.1     Document Type: Review

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