Interactions between neuroactive steroids and reelin haploinsufficiency in Purkinje cell survival

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-115

  Biamonte, Filippo ^a   Assenza, Giovanni ^a   Marino, Ramona ^a   D'Amelio, Marcello ^b   Panteri, Roger ^a   Caruso, Donatella ^c   Scurati, Samuele ^c   Yague, Josue Garcia ^d   Garcia Segura, Luis Miguel ^d   Cesa, Roberta ^e   Strata, Piergiorgio ^b,e   Melcangi, Roberto Cosimo ^c   Keller, Flavio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autism; Brain sexual dimorphisms; Epigenetic regulation; Mass spectrometry; Neuroactive steroids; Reelin; Schizophrenia; Stereology

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYTAMOXIFEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTIESTROGEN; AROMATASE; CALBINDIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FULVESTRANT; MESSENGER RNA; REELIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRANULE CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PURKINJE CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROMATASE; BRAIN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGENS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PURKINJE CELLS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SEX FACTORS; STEROIDS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 69749110977     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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