Role of late maternal thyroid hormones in cerebral cortex development: An experimental model for human prematurity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1462-1475

  Berbel, P ^a   Navarro, D ^a   Auso E ^a   Varea, E ^a   Rodriguez A E ^a   Ballesta, J J ^a   Salinas, M ^b   Flores, E ^b   Faura, C C ^a   Morreale De Escobar, G ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b Hospital Sant Joan   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

CREB signaling; Hippocampal mossy fibers; Premature birth; Schizophrenia; Short term memory; Subplate maturation; Timm's staining

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PARATHYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; THYROIDECTOMY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEUROGENESIS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYROXINE;

EID: 77952825080     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp212     Document Type: Article

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