Duration of estrogen deprivation, not chronological age, prevents estrogen's ability to enhance hippocampal synaptic physiology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19543-19548

  Smith, Caroline C ^a   Vedder, Lindsey C ^b   Nelson, Amy R ^b   Bredemann, Teruko M ^b   McMahon, Lori L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estradiol; Long term potentiation; NR2B; Spines

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

RATTUS;

EID: 78650592833     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009307107     Document Type: Article

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