BDNF variant Val66Met interacts with estrous cycle in the control of hippocampal function

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4395-4400

  Spencer, Joanna L ^a   Waters, Elizabeth M ^a   Milner, Teresa A ^a,b   Lee, Francis S ^c   McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Neurobiology   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; Estrogen; PSD 95; Synaptic plasticity; TrkB

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; METHIONINE; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN KINASE B; VALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; METHIONINE; MICE; VALINE;

MUS;

EID: 77749279733     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0915105107     Document Type: Article

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