Prolactin reduces the damaging effects of excitotoxicity in the dorsal hippocampus of the female rat independently of ovarian hormones

Neuroscience

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1178-1185

  Tejadilla, D ^a   Cerbon M ^b   Morales, T ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Prolactin; Seizure

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 77955268372     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.05.074     Document Type: Article

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