Androgen rapidly increases dendritic thorns of CA3 neurons in male rat hippocampus

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 381, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 728-732

  Hatanaka, Yusuke ^a   Mukai, Hideo ^a   Mitsuhashi, Kenji ^a   Hojo, Yasushi ^a   Murakami, Gen ^a   Komatsuzaki, Yoshimasa ^a   Sato, Rei ^a   Kawato, Suguru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen; CA3; DHT; Hippocampus; Spine; Synaptic plasticity; Testosterone; Thorn

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTROGEN; LUCIFER YELLOW; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENSITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; DENDRITES; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 62649155713     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.02.130     Document Type: Article

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