Estradiol shapes auditory processing in the adult brain by regulating inhibitory transmission and plasticity-associated gene expression

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5949-5963

  Tremere, Liisa A ^a   Jin, Kwon Jeong ^a   Pinaud, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALLIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SONGBIRD; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROSTATRIENES; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGENS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FINCHES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TAMOXIFEN; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 65949092774     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0774-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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