Estrogen regulates neprilysin activity in rat brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-87

  Huang, Jian ^a   Guan, Hanjun ^b   Booze, Rosemarie M ^c   Eckman, Christopher B ^d   Hersh, Louis B ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Enzyme activity; Estrogen; Neprilysin; Ovariectomy

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; NEPRILYSIN; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043053689     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.05.085     Document Type: Article

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