Acute 19-nortestosterone transiently suppresses hippocampal MAPK pathway and the phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 314, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-149

  Rossbach, Uwe L ^a   Le Grevès, Madeleine ^a   Nyberg, Fred ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a   Le Grevès, Pierre ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anabolic androgenic steroids; ERK; Hippocampus; NMDA receptor; Phosphorylation; Synaptoneurosomes

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; EPHRIN B2; FLUTAMIDE; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NANDROLONE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; STEROID;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; IRRITABILITY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EPHRIN-B2; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FLUTAMIDE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NANDROLONE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTOSOMES;

EID: 70350203980     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.07.027     Document Type: Article

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