Adult hippocampal cell proliferation is suppressed with estrogen withdrawal after a hormone-simulated pregnancy

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 203-211

  Green, Amanda D ^a   Galea, Liisa A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depression; Estradiol; Hippocampus; Imipramine; Neurogenesis; Postpartum

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; BROXURIDINE; DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; DNA; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; IMIPRAMINE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SHAM PROCEDURE;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMIPRAMINE; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PROPIONATES; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 43949102024     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.02.023     Document Type: Article

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