Effects of androgens and estradiol on spine synapse formation in the prefrontal cortex of normal and testicular feminization mutant male rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1963-1967

  Hajszan, Tibor ^a,b   MacLusky, Neil J ^a,c   Johansen, Jamie A ^e   Jordan, Cynthia L ^d   Leranth, Csaba ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FMB 312 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; SEX HORMONE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL 3-BENZOATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATED MALE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADECTOMY; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; WILD TYPE; AGE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMINIZATION; LONG EVANS RAT; ORCHIECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGE FACTORS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; DENDRITIC SPINES; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMINIZATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORCHIECTOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34249793253     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-1626     Document Type: Article

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