Stress hormones and AMPA receptor trafficking in synaptic plasticity and memory

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 675-681

  Krugers, Harmen J ^a   Hoogenraad, Casper C ^b   Groc, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STRESS HORMONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DEPRESSION; GENOMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MEMORY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STRESS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77956907522     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2913     Document Type: Review

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