Extranuclear estrogen receptors mediate the neuroprotective effects of estrogen in the rat hippocampus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Li Cai ^a   Zhang, Quan Guang ^b   Zhou, Cai Feng ^a   Yang, Fang ^a   Zhang, Yi Dong ^a   Wang, Rui Min ^a   Brann, Darrell W ^b  

^a NORTH CHINA COAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FULVESTRANT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DENDRIMER; ESTRADIOL BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; ESTRADIOL-BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; ESTROGEN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; COGNITION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; COGNITION; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DENDRIMERS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE;

EID: 77956285989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009851     Document Type: Article

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