A high cholesterol diet elevates hippocampal cytokine expression in an age and estrogen-dependent manner in female rats

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-38

  Lewis, Danielle K ^a   Bake, Shameena ^a   Thomas, Kristen ^a   Jezierski, Melinda K ^a   Sohrabji, Farida ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Inflammation; Interleukins; RANTES; Reproductive aging; VEGF

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINE; ESTROGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; RANTES; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFLAMMATION; LIVER LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENESCENCE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; CYTOKINES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77953543310     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.03.024     Document Type: Article

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