Hippocampal dynorphin immunoreactivity increases in response to gonadal steroids and is positioned for direct modulation by ovarian steroid receptors

Neuroscience

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 204-216

  Torres Reveron, A ^a   Khalid, S ^a   Williams, T J ^a   Waters, E M ^b   Jacome, L ^c   Luine, V N ^c   Drake, C T ^a   McEwen, B S ^b   Milner, T A ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

CA3; dentate gyrus; estrogen; estrous cycle; opioid; progestin

Indexed keywords

DYNORPHIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DIESTRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALS; DYNORPHINS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60349093588     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.12.023     Document Type: Article

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