The effects of corticosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone on neurotrophic factor mRNA expression in primary hippocampal and astrocyte cultures

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 48-59

  Gubba, E M ^a   Fawcett, J W ^a   Herbert, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development and regeneration; Differentiation; expression and regulation; Glia; Glutamate; Growth factors; Hippocampus; Neurotrophic factor; Steroids

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TISSUE CULTURE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043096873     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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