Pregnenolone sulfate enhances survival of adult-generated hippocampal granule cells via sustained presynaptic potentiation

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 60, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 529-541

  Yang, Rong ^a   Zhou, Rong ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Cai, Weiyan ^a   Tomimoto, Hidekazu ^b   Sokabe, Masahiro ^c,d   Chen, Ling ^a,c  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ( 7nAChR); 1 receptor ( 1R); Neurogenesis; NMDA receptor (NMDAr); Pregnenolone sulfate (PREGS)

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; SIGMA 1 OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNENOLONE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650842121     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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