Environmental estrogens impact primate brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 13705-13706

  Morrison, John H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OVARIECTOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENVIRONMENT; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOLS; PRIMATES; SYNAPSES;

PRIMATES;

EID: 52949119925     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807272105     Document Type: Note

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