Sex steroids and the dentate gyrus

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hajszan, Tibor ^a,b   Milner, Teresa A ^c,d   Leranth, Csaba ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

androgen; electrophysiology; estrogen; neurogenesis; neuroprotection; progesterone; sex difference; synaptic remodeling

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 34548288991     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)63023-4     Document Type: Review

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