Steroid hormone receptor expression and function in microglia

GLIA

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 659-674

  Sierra, Amanda ^a   Gottfried Blackmore, Andres ^a   Milner, Teresa A ^a,b   McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Bulloch, Karen ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain inflammation; Estradiol; Glucocorticoids; LPS; Microglia; Receptors; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL 3-BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45549085016     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.20644     Document Type: Article

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