Postpubertal decrease in hippocampal dendritic spines of female rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 339-348

  Yildirim, Murat ^a,b   Mapp, Oni M ^b   Janssen, William G M ^b   Yin, Weiling ^c   Morrison, John H ^b   Gore, Andrea C ^b,c  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

CA1; Dendritic spine; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Puberty; Spinogenesis; Spinophilin; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

DRUG VEHICLE; ESTRADIOL; SPINOPHILIN;

ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY; VAGINA; VAGINA SMEAR;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DENDRITIC SPINES; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 41149092540     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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